Mina de São Domingos

AIRVŪZ STAFF NOTE : Check out this excellent drone video of a famous abandoned mine in southern Portugal, compliments of top contributor Francisco Rodrigues. The Sao Domingos Mine is located near the town of Corte do Pinto in the Alentejo region, just west of the Spanish border. The mine was originally exploited for its gold and silver deposits during Roman times. In the 19th century, it was tapped by French and later British mining interests for its copper, and later it became a source of pyrite for sulfuric acid. It was closed in the mid-1960's.

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In the heart of Baixo Alentejo, between hills and valleys as far as the eye can see, an abandoned mine makes us travel back in time and go back more than 50 years. It is the S. Domingos Mine, located in the municipality of Mértola. It finished its work in 1966, but after the sale of the machinery and everything that was possible to dismantle at the time it kept everything else in the open: buildings now in ruins, remains of railroad tracks, mounds of black earth, rusty structures, excavations abandoned and a lake of acid black waters, where a fish does not live.The mine was in operation between 1854 and 1966, and more than 20 million tons of ore came out of its deposits, mainly copper, zinc, lead and sulfur, exploited by the British company Mason & Barry, which brought an English lifestyle to the region. which contrasted at the time with the poor and humble people of the land.