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Pachuca / Real del Monte silver district, Hidalgo

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What you could find

Reported finds from this ground.

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Crystals and mineralsCrystals and minerals

Also reported: acanthite, pyrargyrite.

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

Tertiary epithermal Ag veins

One of the largest historic silver producers in the world.

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