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The Union, January 4, 2011.

The neighbor unionense Preciado Francis Mining Museum assign to a plane Union of mining concessions by Carlos Lanzarote in 1907, a document who spent 25 years in a garage and that is coupled to other copy exists, the only set of mapping concessions in the Sierra de Cartagena-La Union during the mining heyday.

This is a second edition of 1.26 meters high and 3.10 m

wide with a set of coordinates that locate the 285 extraction machines and 1,151 existing mines in the district of Cartagena at the time, and Vicenta Groups or so-called "Alexander" (A-4), "Although it's always time later "(B-5)," Virginia and Concha "(DE-12) and" Good Hope "(C-2).

Preciado himself explains that the plane got a little over one year through a friend of mine whose father, also a guild, had preserved for 25 years in his garage, folding and protected by a plastic, but after the latter's death I thought getting rid of paper by pulling it away, which prevented this neighbor, since having it hanging in a basement.

"All I want," he says, "is to be retained in the Mining Museum in La Union because I feel sorry for the possible damage that may occur here, and be exposed to public displays of mining heritage and the municipality."

As pointed out by the official chronicler of the Union, Francisco Rodenas, the plane of Lanzarote has "exceptional significance as it is the graphic testimony of an area intensively exploited, with nearly 1,200 mining concessions of varying length between Cartagena and Cabo de Palos", by which meant, he adds, "a Herculean effort, and does not keep anything like that."

Although the Mining Museum currently maintains another copy almost virgin Lanzarote who spent many years at City Hall, the review will identify the letters 'UEE' (Spanish Union of Explosives) and there are certain areas and farms are marked with lines and colors that suggest it may used as a working document and, perhaps, have remained for years in the offices of the former company opencast Peñarroya.

"It is true that the possibilities and means by which industrial and Carlos had a Lanzarote were not now, so it is inevitable that this mapping there are some inaccuracies and errors related to size or guidance," said Manuel Rosillo, professor Surveying at the Technical University of Cartagena and scholar of the mining concessions at the time.

"However", he adds, "and although in Spain there are other levels of concessions at the time, no doubt that there are none of this caliber, and the map of Lanzarote was a very important effort that portrays a very special situation as accurately as possible within the capabilities then. "

Source: Ayuntamiento de La Unión