Spain
Castile and León
Burgos
Paramos
Los Altos
Huidobro Copper Mine: Los Altos Mine
Spain
Castile and León
Burgos
Paramos
Los Altos
Huidobro Copper Mine: Los Altos Mine
Huidobro Copper Mine: Los Altos Mine
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This Highlight is in a protected area
Please check local regulations for: Parque Natural Hoces del Alto Ebro y Rudrón
Location: Los Altos, Paramos, Burgos, Castile and León, Spain
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The Huidobro copper mine is a mining site whose exploitation is documented from at least the 18th century to the 1960s. where it was closed, although there are sources that indicate that this mine has been in operation since the Neolithic, since it seems that the use of the attractive bluish-green rocks in which the metal is contained (azurite and malachite) were first used for fundamentally aesthetic, to decorate beads for ornaments and for the preparation of cosmetics, as happened in other Neolithic settlements close to this type of exploitation.
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•April 16, 2022
I have loved these mines, with their passageways and their color.
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