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Almaden

Boom town, Spain.

About Almaden

Municipality of Spain. Part of the Heritage of Mercury (Almaden and Idrija) World Heritage Site, inscribed in 2012.1,2

Where next

Mines

Worked atAlmaden mercury minesAlmaden mercury mines lies about 3 km away.1

Sources

  1. Wikidata item Q465085 (Almaden)
  2. Heritage of Mercury. Almaden and Idrija UNESCO World Heritage Centre

From the Prospector Trails mining history dataset: each fact links to the source it was checked against. Figures are as the source gives them, in the money of their day. Not investment advice.

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