Corta Atalaya. Main open pit copper sulphur mine at Rio Tinto, Sierra de Aracena and Picos de Aroche Natural Park. Huelva province. Southern Andalusia
Corta Atalaya. Main open pit copper sulphur mine at Rio Tinto, Sierra de Aracena and Picos de Aroche Natural Park. Huelva province. Southern Andalusia, Spain. Europe. Corta Atalaya is the largest open-pit mine in Europe and was at one time the largest in the world. It is located within the city limits of Minas de Riotinto in the province of Huelva, autonomous community of Andalusia, Spain. It is roughly elliptical in shape, 1,200 metres (3,900 ft) long, 900 metres (3,000 ft) wide, and 350 metres (1,150 ft) deep. It was one of the most ambitious projects of the Rio Tinto Group. At its peak it employed 2,000 workers mining copper; it was actively mined until 1992. Since at least 1994 it has been flooded up to the 16th ring
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