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MARSarrón / Mazarrón, Spain

The soil with red orange hue and the apocalyptic landscape look like Mars but it is located in Mazarrón, a town in Murcia´s region.

In these lands there are ruins of some mines where zinc, lead, silver and alums were extracted from Roman times and were abandoned in the 60s, when mining was no longer profitable.

It is an open pit mine approximately more than 300 meters in lenght and an average height of more than 25 meters.

I did a photo session and I will post them in the next few days, 1 photo a day.

 

La tierra con matizes rojos anarajados y el paisaje apocalíptico recuerdan a Marte pero está situado en Mazarrón, pueblo de la región de Murcia.

En estas tierras se encuentran los restos de unas minas donde se extrajeron zinc, plomo, plata y alumbres, desde la época romana y fueron abandonadas en los años 60, cuando la explotación minera ya no era rentable.

Se trata de una mina a cielo abierto con aproximadamente mas de 300 metros de longitud y una altura media superior a los 25 metros.

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Uploaded on February 8, 2021
Taken on February 6, 2021