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Guanajuato
Guanajuato silver district (Valenciana)
Mineral locality Documented siteGray area
What you could find
Reported finds from this ground.
Coins and tokens
Crystals and mineralsAlso reported: Acanthite, pyrargyrite, aguilarite (type locality).
Photos via Wikimedia Commons: West Yorkshire Archaeology Advisory Service, Amy Downes, (CC BY-SA 2.0), Stephanie Clifford from Arlington, VA, USA (CC BY 2.0).
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Why this spot
Tertiary epithermal Ag-Au veins
One of the richest silver camps in history; type locality of aguilarite.
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