The commitment of the A Pobra do Brollón Council to promote tourism has one of its fundamental pillars in the Tourist Resources Network. With the creation of the Network, the aim is to disseminate and enhance the main tourist resources of the municipality. One of the municipal projects that has had the collaboration of the GDR Ribeira Sacra O Courel and that has just been implemented recently is that of “Valorization of the tourist resource: Roman Mine of the Medos”. The action consisted of cleaning and enabling an access path and installing an interpretive panel.
The Medes Mine is an open-pit Roman gold mine. We are in a secondary deposit. In the primary ones, the gold was extracted from the vein itself, while in the secondary ones, the gold was extracted from the accumulations of materials resulting from the erosion of the primary deposits.
The exploitation was first achieved through the superficial washing system. Later, a more elaborate extraction system was used, that of converging grooves, magnificently preserved over a large part of its surface.
The exploitation area is divided into two levels: the lowest one on the banks of the Saa River with structures that are difficult to distinguish and the exploitation area with converging grooves where we can clearly see the deposits of aggregates resulting from the washing of the alluvium.
