Tharsis Copper Mines

2500 BCVariableCopper

CountrySpain

RegionHuelva

Year Opened2500 BC

Size/DepthVariable

MineralCopper

About Tharsis Copper Mines

One of the oldest copper mining districts in the world. Phoenicians and Romans worked the deposits. Named after the biblical Tarshish. The Rio Tinto flows nearby, colored red by mine runoff.

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