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Zacatecas
Fresnillo silver district
Mineral locality Documented siteGray area
What you could find
Reported finds from this ground.
Coins and tokensAlso reported: acanthite, polybasite, stephanite, pyrargyrite.
Photos via Wikimedia Commons: West Yorkshire Archaeology Advisory Service, Amy Downes, (CC BY-SA 2.0).
Why this spot
Tertiary Ag-Pb-Zn veins
One of the greatest silver mines on Earth.
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