The Roman Mine of Mina de Cardenillo

It is an incalculable historical legacy that left Roman civilization in the south The Iberian Peninsula in Andalusia: aqueducts, roads, baths, temples and necropolises. But also the station, the pottery workshops. and mines.

Mine LA MINA Delel. CARDENILLO It was developed by the Romans in II- I am. centuries before NE. This copper mine is located in the foothills of the Sierra Bermeha, in the zones formed from tectonic cataclysms. Leaks near the mine Guadalmansa river.

Originally mine, which arose here in the era The Roman Republic looked like a simple The ditch because the copper ore was completely buried shallow from the surface. As long as The breeding, and the deepening mine. There were ores deep. cuprite, azurite (blue malachite) and malachite. And now the need has arisen. a new entrance to the mine, which It was a tunnel with steps. Carved in peridodelic rock. It's There was already groundwater level of the river Guadalmansa. This level is light. through the upper chamber of the mine, light-window - such a technique lighting of the lower streaks of Rome Engineers used it quite often. To reach the water level of the river, A shaft leading to the bottom The level of enrichment ores of copper sulfide - calcium and covelina.

Water. from the mine was removed by "Archimedov" the screw, which allowed to continue bottom-stroke below the river's groundwater level. She is. I can't see it now because it's flooded. waters. But it is in this part of the mine. They produced pyrite, calcopyrite and bromite.

Mountains Bermech's Sierras, stretching all along Costa del Sol, very rich in useful fossils. In Roman times, except And there was a lot of jasper and agate. talc, asbestos, plaster, marble. From Malaga Before Estepona, more is known today. Half a dozen mines. Not indifferent to the richness of the historical heritage of the South, coastal part of the province of Malaga, They can go to the mountains and their Seeing these far-away attributes past. It's will fascinating and cognitive camping.