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In the south-west of the Iberian Peninsula there is a vast pyritic mineralised zone, known as the Andevallo, extending from near Seville to south of Lisbon, an area some 150 kilometres long and 30 kilometres wide.

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Maurice J. Cahalan

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Salkield, L.U. (1987). Introduction. In: Cahalan, M.J. (eds) A technical history of the Rio Tinto mines: some notes on exploitation from pre-Phoenician times to the 1950s. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-3377-4_1

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