Métlaoui
Metlaoui is a city of the west of the Tunisia located between Gafsa and Tozeur. It is attached to the Gouvernorat of Gafsa.
The municipality shelters a population of 37.099 inhabitants and thus constitutes the most important mining city of Tunisia.
The city experiences a strong development under the French protectorate with the discovery of the first layer of Phosphate S in 1885 (located at a few kilometers with the foot of Djebel Selja). Its industrial exploitation begins in 1897 with the Concession granted to the Compagnie of phosphates and the railroads of Sfax-Gafsa and the construction of the railway line between Metlaoui and Sfax (250 kilometers) making it possible to forward the Minerai to the port from where it is exported or transformed on the spot. Today still, the phosphate is extracted in five mining centers neighborhood ( mining Star ) and Metlaoui constitutes the main thing of it.
Metlaoui obtained a Musée of Natural history where one can admire a collection interesting of Fossile S discovered at the time of the exploration campaigns of the basement for the boring of the mines.
The city is a rail junction for the trains transporting phosphate and the starting point of the circuit carried out by a tourist train, the red Lézard , which proposes a walk in the Gorges of Selja.
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