Model Engineer Index 1898 to Feb 2025

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