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Bauxite Mines of Spinazzola

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Bauxite Mines of Spinazzola

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Bauxite Mines of Spinazzola

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    Location: Spinazzola, Barletta-Andria-Trani, Apulia, Italy

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    1. Roman Bridge – Bauxite Mines of Spinazzola loop from Spinazzola

    40.5km

    03:29

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    2. Bauxite Mines of Spinazzola – Rocca del Garagnone loop from Poggiorsini

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    04:11

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    3. Bauxite Mines of Spinazzola – Roman Bridge loop from Spinazzola

    41.3km

    03:28

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    December 2, 2022

    On the road between Andria and Spinazzola, a short distance from the medieval castle of Garagnone, there is a place that was once the site of a very important bauxite mining activity, the rock from which aluminum can be obtained

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      January 26, 2023

      The Spinazzola bauxite quarry is a deposit found in Puglia in 1935 by the surveyor Luca Nanna and the accountant Paolo Cappiello, during their excursion in the Murgia area.

      The field was used from the 1950s until the end of the 1970s for the extraction of bauxite, a mineral made up of iron and aluminum oxides and hydroxides, useful for processing alumina which then leads to the final product, aluminum real.

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        January 26, 2023

        A marvelous Martian landscape remains of this quarry, the red, barren and arid earth is crowned by the luxuriant vegetation of the Murgia. Red and green blend harmoniously with the blue of the sky and give life to a picture with docile but decisive colours.

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