One bearer share certificate of 100 Francs of "Société Minière d´Almagrera", 1927.Paris /Sierra de Almagrera, Cuevas de Almazora (Almeria) founded in 1900
Condition (opinion): Excellent (EF). A handwritten signature. The document is uncancelled. Size without coupons: 25cm/28.8cm (average/small). Without canceling. Printed by :P.Forveille, Paris.
Exploitations of lead and silver minerals, such as silver galena. Société Minière d'Almagrera, a French structure whose headquarters are located in Paris and whose mission is the exploitation of iron, lead, silver and any other existing mineral mines located in the Sierra Almagrera region.
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Sierra Almagrera is a mountain range made up of mountains near the Mediterranean coast, in the east of the province of Almería (Spain), with an altitude no higher than 366 m above sea level. This mountain system belongs to the Penibética mountain range and is located entirely in the municipality of Cuevas de Almanzora.
Geologically, it has risen from the seabed along a multitude of faults, which over geological times were filled with veins of lead and silver minerals, such as silver galena. This turned this mountain range into an important mining center for the extraction of these minerals in the past, starting in 1838 when the veins were discovered. The mineral called jarosite is emblematic, so called because it is abundant in the Almagrera mountain range in the so-called Jaroso ravine. Mining extractions transformed the landscape during the 19th century and much of the 20th, filling the area with foundries and bringing the mining railway to the area. that transported the metal to the port of Almería. However, it is not a recent phenomenon, the Phoenician colonies that existed in the area centuries ago, such as that of Baria, located in the current town of Villaricos (where you can see remains of a Phoenician necropolis and salting factory), attest that since Its wealth was known and exploited for a very long time.
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Alongside this mining expansion, the Iberian coast quickly acquired around twenty smelters intended to receive ore from the Sierra Almagrera via a series of tunnels and cable cars running through the mountains. This epic allowed the majority of industrialists to become rich overnight, thus favoring the development of new headquarters as well as the deepening of these. However, these new works ended up reaching a significant reddish water table which quickly drowned the sites located more than 150 meters deep. This influx of water could not be stemmed, so the operators had no choice but to invest around 15% of their turnover in the construction of a drain intended to collect all the water from the Jaroso ravine. In 1900, the Société Minière d'Almagrera was created, a French structure whose head office is located in Paris and whose mission is the exploitation of mines of iron, lead, silver and any other existing ore located in the Sierra Almagrera region. This is how this company absorbed and unified the different headquarters located in the mountains before merging with Sociedad Anónima Minas de Herrerías, a company located in the plain and which has several extraction sites including the Alianza headquarters. A new installation intended for drying construction sites is also being created: the Encarnación headquarters. The latter is composed of an air well as well as a dewatering well connected to all the mines still exploited in the region thanks to canals and at the bottom of which are powerful pumps powered in its early days by machines steam then by electric alternators.
The various conflicts of the 20th century damaged the company which was finally brought to a standstill during the Second World War but, once peace had returned, the National Institute of Industry (INI) restarted production via a new company named Minas de Almagrera S.A., a company better known as "MASA". It is to the latter that we owe the mining town of Arteal as well as the Santa Bárbara tunnel, a 4,123 meter connecting gallery intended to centralize the production of the various mines located in the heights. 907 people then worked for this company of which only eight mines were still active:
- 401 underground miners,
- 422 surface workers,
- 47 administrative employees,
- 37 junior technicians.
In recent years, ore exploitation has unfortunately been in decline and the majority of the remaining veins are in the exhaustion phase. From 1950, the facilities began to close one by one until 1958, the year the company closed. Subsequently, a flotation treatment plant was inaugurated on the El Arteal plateau in order to exploit the tons of still highly mineralized waste rock piling up in the Sierra Almagrera. This gigantic installation was operated by different private companies until 1991, the year mining was definitively abandoned in the region. Today, hundreds of remains and unsecured wells are still visible in the mountains and on the plateau. Some headframes have survived to this day, such as the wooden one from the Encantada mine which was renovated a few years ago and which has the oldest extraction machine still visible in the country, a treat for any lover of industrial heritage. .
