Logbook · 21 places

The definitive closure of the mines of La Unión

La Unión, Campo de Cartagena, Murcia

1 Villages · 9 Monuments · 4 Activities · 2 Curiosities · 3 Historical milestones · 2 Food and drink

Spain › Region of Murcia › Campo de Cartagena › La Unión › The definitive closure of the mines of La Unión

The definitive closure of the mines of La Unión

Historical milestone · La Unión, Campo de Cartagena, Murcia

Image of La Unión, not of the place itself.

The end of open-pit working put a final stop in 1991 to two millennia of mining in the range, begun by Punics and Romans; the landscape of pits, headframes and washing plants remained as testimony of a vanished economy.

1991

Photo: Nanosanchez (Public domain)

What to see and do in La Unión