Year | 2012 |
Date | 30-Nov |
Volume | 209 |
Issue | 4,444 |
Page | 792 |
Category | General |
Part | |
Title | Rio Tinto Copper Mining in Southern Spain |
Author | Terence Holland |
Notes | Looks at copper within a Spanish mining context. Introduction, lunar landscape, location in Spain, the mines area, processing plant, Cerro Colorado Open Pit, the main line to Huelva, Corta Atalya, early history, the British connection, Bella Vista, expansion under British management, Bucyrus-Erie steam shovel, the processing of pyrites, open-air calcination, some photos courtesy James Waite |