Las Medulas is an area of Roman-era gold mining. They worked these
placer deposits by re-routing water into the area to fill vertical
shafts and horizontal galleries they dug of varying widths, which
hydraulically collapsed the surrounding deposits and washed them into
a settling pond, where the gold could more easily be separated.
29 June 2012
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