Show IMPORT IWOn TINT INT LEAD MINES IN 0 spain Is one of the few countries of europe with metal production of importance at the end of he rine pine centrum it held first place in the production of lead whereas lo 10 day the united states has wrested that place from it spain however still produces 13 per cent of the worlds world s yearly output of this metal half of it comes from the district of linares and la carolina in the province of jaen linares is ed miles directly south of mad rid close to the trunk line from madrid to cordoba sevilla and cadiz to which it is connected by a short railroad its nearest harl harbor or also connected to it by rail Is al meria says a writer in the engineer ing and mining journal press of new york the mines of the district were ex plotted early by the phoenicians and afterward by the romans as weri many others in spain idle tor for a long period after the barbaric in of the tiothy and during the sanguinary wars with the moors they started again during the lattur part of the sixteenth century and operated with increase increasing g activity up to the second halt half of me the nineteenth century when they were at the height of their prosperity the future of the district depends kirtly artly on the desales of the develop ments of the veins at greater depth there seems to be a lean zone at a fairly uniform depth ranging be tween 1200 and 1600 feet below the surface no deeper mining has been tried although the veins keep their full sizes as to lengths and widths at that depth |