The Museum of arts and minerals of the Elba isle in Rio Marina  

The Museum of arts and minerals of the Elba isle is hosted in the Palazzo Burņ (Burņ Palace) that once was the administrative centre of the mines.  

Rio Marina is considered the most ancient of the mines of the Elba isle and the richest for the mining material that its territory offers.  

Inside the museum are recreated the ancient suggestive environments of the mines by using original materials, where it is possible to admire a valuable collection of minerals from Elba such as the pyrite, quartz, haematite and calcite.

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Today the mining area comprises a large zone extending from the North to the Giove mountain.