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Roman Mine La Mora Encantada


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The Mora Encantada mine is a specular or selenitic plaster deposit in which the Romans exploited the famous lapis specularis or Hispania crystal, a transparent plaster that was used as window glass in Roman times. It has more than a kilometer of galleries more than 40 meters deep, two extraction shafts and a stepped entrance.

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articulo_lapis_specularis_1.pdf lapis_specularis_cristal_del_imperio.pdf