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Coquimbo, Coquimbo Region

Arqueros silver district

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: proustite traces, barite.

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

Silver veins north of La Serena mined from 1825, source of fine proustite

Classic Chilean silver locality in mineralogical literature.

Before you go

Hazards noted for this site.

open shafts

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