Sediments date Pyrenees gold mine to Roman era

Researchers have strengthened evidence that Roman miners used water to extract gold from Spain’s eastern Pyrenees, dating a long-suspected mining complex where an estimated 2 million cubic metres of earth were displaced, enough to fill about 800 Olympic-sized swimming pools. ...

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