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Although the Rio Tinto mines are perhaps most widely associated with copper production, it should be borne in mind that it was the demand for sulphur that stimulated the major development of the mines of the Iberian Pyrites Belt and the search for means of maximising the return from the sulphur content of the ore has never been far from the minds of those operating there.
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Salkield, L.U. (1987). Sulphur production — the Orkla process. 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_15
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