Le Colorado Provençal is famous for the rich deposits of ochre pigments found in the clay near the villages of Rustrel and Roussillon. The large quarries were mined from the end of the eighteenth century until 1930. Thousands of people found work in the quarries and factories. Nowadays the mining of ochre is prohibited here, in order to protect the sites from degradation or even complete destruction.
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