Sos Enattos
The Miniera di Sos Enattos (also Son Enattos) is a museum mine in the province of Nuoro in northeastern Sardinia .
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The mine on the slopes of Monte Albo , which was already used by the Romans, was closed in 1997 and converted into a museum mine in 2007. It is located in the Sos Enattos-Guzzwra Geopark and is now part of the UNESCO- recognized Parco Geominerario Storico e Ambientale della Sardegna project . The access is on the road from Nuoro to Lula , opposite the junction to the San Francesco pilgrimage church . The sign Miniera Rimisa indicates an abandoned mine . An asphalt road leads past a stone factory.
history
Sos Enattos has been characterized by ditches, shafts and tunnels since Roman times . In 1940 that was Miniera di Sos Enattos established to 80 m depth galena and sphalerite promote here in a Quarzflöz are embedded. At first they worked with the elevator of the winding tower , later along a helical ramp , comparable to a spiral staircase , with diesel vehicles. The elevator in Pozzo Rolandi , the mine’s large winding tower, today transports visitors down who drive underground in padded lorries through the public-accessible shafts.
Minerals of the pit
Azurite , calcite , chalcopyrite , fluorite , silver-containing galena , malachite , pyrite , quartz , sphalerite , siderite and smithsonite .
Trivia
The original Meteo a Corda station at the parking lot is worth a look - an anemometer in the form of a dangling cord.
literature
- Quade, Horst (Ed.): Geoforum 2003: Geotopes - Geoparks - Geotourism. Series of publications by the German Geological Society, issue 25
- Vogt, Joachim; Megerle, Andreas (Hrsg.): Geopark and Geotourism Research - Results of the International Workshop in Karlsruhe 2006. Regional Science Research 31, 2006
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Coordinates: 40 ° 26 ′ 31 ″ N , 9 ° 26 ′ 55 ″ E