The Little Mine of Porto Azzurro

Inside the Little Mine, reachable by a little train, are recreated the ancient suggestive environments of the mines by using original materials.

Inside the Little Mine it is possible to admire a collection of the minerals, which the isle is rich, and the machines once used to process the same minerals.

A little museum, close to the Little Mine, shows the ancient phase of the extracting and manufacturing processes, also reconstructing the ancient history of the mining activity in the isle of Elba.

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Among the minerals collected it is possible to see the pyrite, the hematite, the quartz and the calcite.

Very interesting is also the photographic collection showing the typical twentieth-century building mines.