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Vallone stope, Cape Calamita Mine (Calamita Mine), Capoliveri, Elba Island, Livorno Province, Tuscany, Italy

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Vallone stope, Cape Calamita Mine (Calamita Mine), Capoliveri, Elba Island, Livorno Province, Tuscany, Italy

A general view in the may of 2005. At the right the cut of the "Trincerone" in the white Lias limestones.
 © Paolo MalesciPhoto ID: 125526    View Count: 204

Cannello Beach

Vallone stope, Cape Calamita Mine (Calamita Mine), Capoliveri, Elba Island, Livorno Province, Tuscany, Italy

A view of the beach and Vallone stope from Punta Rossa (Red Point).
 © Paolo MalesciPhoto ID: 125527    View Count: 268

Cape Calamita

Vallone stope, Cape Calamita Mine (Calamita Mine), Capoliveri, Elba Island, Livorno Province, Tuscany, Italy

June 2008 - abandoned digger at th lower level of the pit.
 © 2008 Paolo MalesciPhoto ID: 174472    View Count: 100

Cape Calamita bushes...

Vallone stope, Cape Calamita Mine (Calamita Mine), Capoliveri, Elba Island, Livorno Province, Tuscany, Italy

On the bottom of the long road of the mine,which is put forward the dark sea,u can reach a vast beach,with a wild flora,fluffy silverish bushes and an orange-yellow-reddish coloured ground...and still,here and there blue and green pebbles of malachite or crysocolla which paint the background. The lanscape is amazing,almost lunar,u must see to know ...
 © Sarah SudcowskyPhoto ID: 124323    View Count: 189

Cape Calamita rivers...

Vallone stope, Cape Calamita Mine (Calamita Mine), Capoliveri, Elba Island, Livorno Province, Tuscany, Italy

What's this?....This milky blue little river was beside the road which start from the main building of the mine. What give it that bright odd colour is luckily something natural,rather than pollution,and i thought should be some kind of copper mineral. I also noticed that on the rocks where this coloured water was flowing there was a kind of ...
 © Sarah SudcowskyPhoto ID: 124324    View Count: 291

Francesche pit and beach

Vallone stope, Cape Calamita Mine (Calamita Mine), Capoliveri, Elba Island, Livorno Province, Tuscany, Italy

June 2008 - the old Francesche stope and his beach.
 © 2008 Paolo MalesciPhoto ID: 174474    View Count: 86

Mine buildings view from Cape Calamita

Vallone stope, Cape Calamita Mine (Calamita Mine), Capoliveri, Elba Island, Livorno Province, Tuscany, Italy

June 2008 - Moorning view of ore treatment building ("Laveria terre") and the power plant.
 © 2008 Paolo MalesciPhoto ID: 174473    View Count: 93

Ore shipping plant

Vallone stope, Cape Calamita Mine (Calamita Mine), Capoliveri, Elba Island, Livorno Province, Tuscany, Italy

June 2008 - The rests of the old plant at the sea; the wharf is not surviving.
 © 2008 Paolo MalesciPhoto ID: 174476    View Count: 75

Ore shipping plant

Vallone stope, Cape Calamita Mine (Calamita Mine), Capoliveri, Elba Island, Livorno Province, Tuscany, Italy

June 2008
 © 2008 Paolo MalesciPhoto ID: 174477    View Count: 73
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