RT Journal Article
T1 Impacto ambiental de la minería en el devenir histórico de la comarca de Río Tinto (Huelva)
T1 Environmental impact in the mining RioTinto area (SW Spain). A historical approach
A1 Fernández Caliani, Juan Carlos
A1 Galán Huertos, Emilio
AB As a consequence of the large mining operations occurred at Rio Tinto area (SW Spain) since prehistoric times, forests were demolished, rivers were polluted by heavy metals, sulphates and suspended particles, air was polluted by So2 producing acid rains and human health problems, wastes (slags, pyrite ashes, and other leaching materials) were storaged as great mountains, and landscape turned wilderness and inhospitable with many abandoned mining factories and ghost villages. Today, environmental problems derived from this old situation and present activities are a challenge for the Administration, ecologists and society, since the Rio Tinto area is the most contamined of Spain
PB Sociedad Geológica de España
YR 1996
FD 1996
LK http://hdl.handle.net/10272/12785
UL http://hdl.handle.net/10272/12785
LA spa
DS Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Huelva
RD 30 may 2026