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RIO TINTO (MINAS DE RID TINTo)

This article appears in Volume V23, Page 363 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: RHY-RON
RIO TINTO (MINAS DE RID TINTo) , a
mining
  town of
south
 -western Spain, in the province of
Huelva
 ; near the source of the river Tinto, and at the terminus of a light railway from the port of
Huelva
 . Pop. (19o0) 11,603. Rio Tinto is one of the greatest copper-
mining
  centres in the world; and it is from the discoloration of its waters by copper ore that the river derives its name. Besides the town of Minas, several villages are peopled by the native miners, whose numbers exceed xo,000; and one is occupied solely by British mine officials. The surrounding country is covered for miles with heaps of slag, and has been reduced to a
desert
 . In 1903 the output of the mines included 84o,000 tons of copper ore, worth more than 500,000, besides a relatively small quantity of
iron
  and
manganese
 . Almost the entire product is despatched to Huelva for shipment to
Great
 
Britain. Rio Tinto was probably first exploited by the Carthaginians; vestiges of later Roman workings may still be seen. After the Moorish conquest, in 711, it was neglected until 1725, when the mines were leased to a Swede named Wolters. Their
modern
  importance
dates
  from 1872, when a syndicate of London and Bremen capitalists
purchased
  them from the Spanish government for nearly 4,000,000.


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