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Mountain that overlooks Benidorm.
Navarre Plain
Snow capped high plains of Navarre Plain looking towards Pamplona on main road, I was travelling in that direction to Pamplona.
Navarre Plain
Obvious that this part of Spain has quite a high snow fall annually by the fact that the road has the red and yellow marker poles by the side of the road.
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Navarre Plain snowing
One of the numerous road tunnels in Spain, people who have not driven around Spanish interior country side probably do not realise how Spain has numerous mountain areas. At least before I started to drive around in the country in a motorhome I had preconceived idea that Spain was fairly flat and sunny.
Navarre Plain
More lovely scenic views wrong time of year. Want to go back here when weather better sometime.
Navarre Plain
Moutain pass on the plain a lot of beautiful scenic countryside unfortunately travelled through there wrong time of year.
Almaden Mercury Mine Museum
Early type Mercury processing Plant
After mining the Mercury laden ore from deep in the mine it is baked to make the liquid Mercury oose out of the rock. This picture is of reconstruction of original process set up before modern methods were introduced. The way this works the ore is heated in the chambers each side and the Mercury liquid runs down terracotta pipes into middle collection channel.
Almaden Mercury Mine Museum
Mine train
You start at where there is a lift to go underground at the end of the tour underground you get in this little mine workers train. The train rattles along at quite fast speed through the mine at end of tour.
Mercury Storage Vessels in poor state of repair
Modern process ovens at the rear of these.
Original old winding tower
Modern electric lift type nearby, this old one was steam engine driven, same as coal mines in England.
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Rio Tinto Mining
Most of the stock of abandoned locomotives were originally built by British companies
Rio Tinto Mining
This Locomotive type is articulated with a driving engine at front and back made by British company "Beyer Garret" these also used to be on British Railways in steam days gone by.
Rio Tinto Mining
More abandoned stock.
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Rio Tinto Mining
More abandoned infrastructure.
Rio Tinto Mining
This is the source of the Rio Tinto river, The staining in the river can be seen on Google Earth all the way to Huelva.
Rio Tinto Mining
It leaches under ground from quarries behind nearby, the brown yellow and blue staining is from the minerals that are mined here. This staining deposits is in the river all the way to Huelva 40 miles away on the coast. These mines and quarries were mined by the Romans, artefacts of the Romans that have been found can be seen in Rio Tinto mining Museum.
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Rio Tinto Mining
Quarry near Rio Tinto town that is still being worked
Rio Tinto Locomotive shed
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A little Spanish Chapel by roadside.
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Chapel interior
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Corta Atalaya quarry Rio Tinto complex
Vast quarry at Corta Atalaya
Class no. 50 (Dubs 1515/1881) dumped on one of the levels. Trapped by a rockfall.
View of Trapped Locomotive in Corta Atalaya quarry
These views give an idea of how vast this hole is
Access to this quarry for railway traffic was by long underground tunnel.
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