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Turón coal mines

Mieres, Caudal, Asturias

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Turón coal mines

Curiosity · Mieres, Caudal, Asturias

Founded in 1890 with Basque capital to work the valley's coal, it came to have nine mines in 1926 and its production peak in 1958; Turón went from 2,000 residents to 20,000 before being absorbed into Hunosa in 1967.

Photo: LBM1948 (CC BY-SA 4.0)

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