ORANGE MINE [IT]

Exploration #233 The orange mine. This small washery processed galena from a nearby mine, producing silver and lead. The area was known for its richness in iron ore since ancient times, in fact much of the slag found in the area leads one to believe that the Etruscans were already forging their weapons here. The minerals extracted from these areas were of such excellent quality that they were used to build parts of Italian nuclear power plants.

As a result of the depletion of the deposits and increasingly high extraction costs, mining activities slowly declined from the 1970s onwards.

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