The Río Tinto mining district gets its name from the red river that courses through one of the greatest concentrations of pyrite on the planet. The mines have been worked since ancient times: Iberians and Tartessians started them, and mining was continued intermittently by Phoenicians, Greeks, Romans, Visigoths and Arabs, to the modern Europeans. (David Rickard, 2015: 181)
country: España
year: 1994
Yvert: 2878
