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Ojos Negros iron mines

Mineral locality Documented siteGray area

What you could find

Reported finds from this ground.

Nails and fittingsNails and fittings

Also reported: hematite, goethite, siderite.

Photos via Wikimedia Commons: North Lincolnshire Museum, Martin Foreman, (CC BY 2.0).

Why this spot

Vast open-cut iron field on the Sierra Menera, worked from Celtiberian times to 1986

Documented mining landscape straddling the Aragon-Castile border.

Before you go

Hazards noted for this site.

pit walls

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