Impacto ambiental de la minería en el devenir histórico de la comarca de Río Tinto (Huelva)
- J.C. Fernández Caliani 1
- E. Galán 2
- 1 Departamento de Geologfa. Facultad de CC. Experimentales, Universidad de Huelva.
- 2 Departamento de Cristalografía, Mineralogía y Química Agrícola. Facultad de Química, Universidad de Sevilla
ISSN: 0213-683X
Year of publication: 1996
Issue: 20
Pages: 1168-1169
Type: Article
More publications in: Geogaceta
Abstract
As a consequence of the large mining operations occurred at Ria 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 far the Administration, ecologists and society, since the Ria Tinto area is the most contamined of Spain.