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‘For the coastlands shall wait for me, the ships of Tharshish first bring your sons from far, their silver and gold with them.’ (Isaiah LX, 9). Though it is a matter of dispute, some biblical scholars hold that Tharshish refers to the mining district, then in Carthaginian hands, now known as Rio Tinto.
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Further Reading
Garcio Palomero, F. (1974), Caracteres Estratigraficos del Anticlinal de Rio Tinto. Studia Geol. (Salamanca), 8, 93–124.
Garcia Palomero, F. (1975), Estudio Geologico de la Masa Piritica de San Antonio (Rio Tinto) Jornadas Minero Metalúrgicas Bilbao, I, 175–91. [Two very good descriptions by the chief mine geologist of Union Explosivo Rio Tinto.]
Rambaud-Perez, F. (1969), El Sinclinal Carbonifero de Rio Tinto (Huelva) y Mineralizciciones Asociadas. Mems. Inst. Geol. Min, Esp., 71, 229pp. [An earlier but interesting description of the whole district.]
Schermerhorn, L.J.G. (1971), An Outline Stratigraphy of the Iberian Pyrite Belt. Bol. Geol. Min., 82, 239–68.
Strauss, G. K., Madel, J. (1970), Geology of the Massive Sulphide Deposits in the Spanish-Portuguese Pyrite Belt. Geol. 63, 191–211. [Two somewhat complementary accounts of the whole province, mostly not about Rio Tinto itself.]
Williams, D. (1933), The Geology of the Rio Tinto Mines. Trans.Inst. Min. Metally 43, 593–640. [Still remarkably good reading despite later reinterpretations of the geology by the mine geologist of the day, who later became professor of Mining Geology at the Royal School of Mines, London.]
Williams, D., Stanton, R. L., Rambaud, F. (1975), The Planes-San Antonio pyritic deposit of Rio Tinto, Spain: its nature, environment and genesis. Trans. Inst. Min. Metall., 84, B73-B82. [An up-to-date account of the recent discoveries.]
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Dixon, C.J. (1979). The Rio Tinto Deposits — Spain. In: Atlas of Economic Mineral Deposits. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-6511-2_29
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