Sulfur mining in Sicily

<p><a href="/facts/Sulfur/IK0amTfM">Sulfur</a> was one of <a href="/facts/Sicily/E6fug03z">Sicily</a>'s most important mineral resources, which is no longer exploited. The area covered by the large deposits is the central area of the island and lies between the provinces of <a href="/facts/Caltanissetta/Jxy2Uywp">Caltanissetta</a>, <a href="/facts/Enna/Nlpqa1pn">Enna</a> and <a href="/facts/Agrigento/KJIFjFs2">Agrigento</a>: The area is also known to <a href="/facts/Geologist/vGc0tBHB">geologists</a> as the chalky-sulfur plateau. But the area of mining exploitation also extended as far as the <a href="/facts/Province_of_Palermo/wwmj0fRD">Province of Palermo</a> with the <a href="/facts/Lercara_Friddi/9jGVa35j">Lercara Friddi</a> basin and the <a href="/facts/Province_of_Catania/LR2boV8L">Province of Catania</a>, of which a part of the Province of Enna was part until 1928; it is the one in which sulfur mining, processing and transport took place in the last quarter of the millennium. For a time it also represented the maximum production area worldwide.
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Sulfur mining in Sicily