las Médulas

AIRVŪZ STAFF NOTE : Check out this fascinating video of an ancient gold mining area in Spain, compliments of AirVuz contributor pepeferreras. It's called Las Médulas, and it's located in the Cantabrian Mountains in the Province of León, part of the northwestern region of Castile and León. Beginning in the first century AD, under Roman rule, the landscape here was transformed by a gold extraction technique which used large quantities of water to undermine the formations. Las Médulas became the largest open-pit gold mine in the Roman Empire.

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Las Médulas, antiguas minas de oro de la época de los romanos situadas en el Bierzo, León. El método empleado para la extracción del oro era la perforación de túneles en las montañas produciendo su colapso por inundación. Grabado con DJI Air2S.