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Zacatecas

Fresnillo silver district

Mineral locality Documented siteGray area

What you could find

Reported finds from this ground.

Coins and tokensCoins and tokens

Also 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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