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Oruro

Oruro tin-silver mines (San Jose)

Mineral locality Documented siteGray area

What you could find

Reported finds from this ground.

Coins and tokensCoins and tokens
Crystals and mineralsCrystals and minerals

Also reported: Cassiterite, stannite, sulfosalts.

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).

Why this spot

Hydrothermal veins

Oruro is a historic tin-silver mining center

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