The new mineral almagreraite (IMA2025-025), Cu2+ZnMn4+3O8, was found on the dump of the República Romana mine, Sierra Almagrera, Cuevas del Almanzora, Almería, Andalusia, Spain, where it occurs as tapering prisms or blades up to ∼0.4 mm in length, commonly forming subparallel to divergent aggregates. It is a secondary mineral associated intimately with well-crystallized blades of malachite on a matrix consisting of well-crystallized goethite and massive friable hematite. Crystals are black and opaque with submetallic lustre. The streak is dark grey with a brownish tint. The tenacity is brittle and the fracture is splintery. There are probably two cleavages (possibly {100} and {010}). The Mohs hardness is ∼5. The calculated density is 5.174 g·cm–3 based upon the empirical formula. In reflected light, the mineral is bluish grey in colour with moderate bireflectance and slightly bluish grey to a lighter bluish grey pleochroism. Electron probe microanalyses provided (Mn4+3.05Cu2+0.93Zn0.91Al0.05)Σ4.94O8. Almagreraite is orthorhombic, Pmn21, a = 5.7298(4), b = 4.9715(4), c = 9.3479(7) Å, V = 266.28(3) Å3 and Z = 2. In the crystal structure (R1 = 0.0297 for 423 I > 2σI reflections), Mn4+O6 octahedra share edges forming an octahedral sheet parallel to {001}. One in every four octahedra in the sheet is vacant, providing the sheet formula [Mn4+3O8]4–. Successive sheets are connected via bonds to Cu2+ and Zn2+ located in a layer between the sheets. The structure is similar to that of minerals of the nolanite supergroup and most notably the kamiokite group. Almagreraite is a member of a family of mixed-metal oxides with the generic formula M2Mn3O8, which are an important subject of study for the development of new materials.

This essay studies the Granada Trilogy by Egyptian writer Radwa Ashour, a novel that tells of the growing constraints on and eventual expulsion of the Arabs during the Spanish Inquisition across five generations of an Andalusian family. In linking this story to that of the Palestinians in the twentieth century and beyond, Ashour ascertains a logic of modernity in which the longue durée governs the experience of time’s passage, and peoples disconnected by long intervals of chronological time bear an intimate affinity by virtue of their common subjugation. Far from being merely a reflection of her despondency over the inability to change this historical dynamic, the Granada Trilogy suggests that the hopefulness animating these refugees is a revolutionary resource with which to apprise present actors of the multiple possible futures that remain alive in the present.

The Underwater Archaeology Centre of Andalusia opened in 1997 due to the need to correctly manage and preserve the underwater archaeological heritage of Andalusia; the main goal set was protection. Aware that the protection of this heritage necessarily involved global knowledge thereof, the Centre decided to focus its efforts on executing a core project – an archaeological map – a tool that would enable the establishment of specific protection and preservation mechanisms and the design of research strategies. The results obtained from this project have enabled the achievement in recent years of some of the goals set, notably guaranteeing the legal protection of these space, and drawing up projects with specific research targets.

Here we report the stranding of two occasional species of the genus Mesoplodon not previously recorded on the Andalusian coast. Two Blainville's beaked whale stranded in two different events, one in Matalascañas (Huelva) in 1996 and another in Tarifa (Cádiz) in 2003, and two Sowerby's beaked whale were found stranded together on the coast of Rota (Cádiz) in 2007. These strandings are located near the range boundaries of both species, whose distribution is poorly known. Additionally, three new records of Gervais' beaked whale stranded on the Andalusian coast are presented.

This article presents three new annual indices of industrial output for Andalusia, Catalonia and the Basque Country between 1830 and 1975. The comparative analysis, the first to include the Basque Country, allows to specify the main tendencies of growth and structural change in the regions studied, two of them pioneers of the Spanish industrialization, Andalusia clearly left behind. The analysis highlights as well the changes operated in the composition of their respective industrial products and, with them, the different regional paths, going from specialization to the manufacturing diversification, followed during the 19th and 20th centuries.