Red River of Río Tinto

Red River of Río Tinto

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Photo: Fran Ojeda

The Río Tinto river within the Sierra Morena mountains of southwestern Spain is thought for its purple and orange shade as a consequence of an especially acidic chemical composition which comprises excessive ranges of iron and heavy metals. This space has been the supply of roughly 5,000 years of ore mining, together with copper, silver, gold, and different minerals and this may very well be the rationale for the excessive stage of acidity within the river.