Cala is a town and municipality located in the province of

Huelva Huelva ( , , ) is a municipality of Spain and the capital of the Huelva (province), province of Huelva, in the Autonomous communities of Spain, autonomous community of Andalusia. Located in the southwest of the Iberian Peninsula, it sits betwee ...

, Spain. According to the 2005

census A census (from Latin ''censere'', 'to assess') is the procedure of systematically acquiring, recording, and calculating population information about the members of a given Statistical population, population, usually displayed in the form of stati ...

, the city has a population of 1,324 inhabitants. The region has been mined since

Carthaginian The term Carthaginian ( ) usually refers to the civilisation of ancient Carthage. It may also refer to: * Punic people, the Semitic-speaking people of Carthage * Punic language The Punic language, also called Phoenicio-Punic or Carthaginian, i ...

times and the local mines, ''Minas de Cala'' are well known for the minerals

Skutterudite Skutterudite is a cobalt arsenide mineral containing variable amounts of nickel and iron substituting for cobalt with the ideal formula CoAs3. Some references give the arsenic a variable formula subscript of 2–3. High nickel varieties are refe ...

and

Nickeline Nickeline or niccolite is the mineral form of nickel arsenide. The naturally-occurring mineral contains roughly 43.9% nickel and 56.1% arsenic by mass, but composition of the mineral may vary slightly. Small quantities of sulfur, iron and cobalt ...

Demographics

References

*''Mineralogy and origin of the skarn from Cala (Huelva, Spain)'', F. Velasco, and J. M. Amigo, Economic Geology, v. 76, no. 3, p. 719-727, May 1981

External links

Cala
- Sistema de Información Multiterritorial de Andalucía
Minas de Cala
Municipalities in the Province of Huelva {{andalusia-geo-stub

Demographics

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