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La minería y el caolín de Garlitos

Garlitos, La Siberia, Badajoz

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La minería y el caolín de Garlitos

Historical milestone · Garlitos, La Siberia, Badajoz

Image of Garlitos, not of the place itself.

Garlitos worked the galena and lead-zinc mines of Las Minillas and El Borracho since Roman times. The so-called 'Tierra Blanca de Garlitos', a high-quality kaolin, was sold commercially until the 1960s and even supplied the Real Fábrica de Porcelana del Retiro.

Photo: Alhen (Wikimedia Commons) (CC BY-SA 3.0)

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