Discarded rock showing the vibrant colours of the Parys Mountain copper mines, Amlwch, Anglesey, North Wales, UK

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Discarded rock showing the vibrant colours of the copper mines. Parys Mountain consists of an outcrop of mineralised shales, principally quartz & pyrite (iron sulphide) chalcopyrite (copper & iron sulphide) chalocite (copper sulphide) & galena (lead sulphide). Deposits yielded copper, zinc, silver & lead, with sulphur, iron oxide ("yellow ochre"), green vitriol, alum, arsenic & quartz through subsidiary manufacture. It was mined from prehistory into modern times and the open cast workings created created a moonscape of huge excavations with waste tips of colourfully impregnated soils

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Size: 4274px × 5669px
Location: Parys Mountain, Amlwch, Isle of Anglesey, Ynys Mon, Wales, UK
Photo credit: © Jean Williamson / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No

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