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Michoacan, Michoacán
Angangueo silver district
Mineral locality Documented sitePermission required
What you could find
Reported finds from this ground.
Crystals and minerals
Coins and tokensAlso reported: galena, sphalerite.
Photos via Wikimedia Commons: Stephanie Clifford from Arlington, VA, USA (CC BY 2.0), West Yorkshire Archaeology Advisory Service, Amy Downes, (CC BY-SA 2.0).
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Why this spot
Silver-lead-zinc veins under the monarch butterfly sierra, mined from the 1790s to the 1990s
Well documented historic district in Mexican mining records.
Before you go
Hazards noted for this site.
altitude, unstable adits
Keep exploring nearby
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