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Zacatecas

Chalchihuites district

Mineral locality Documented sitePermission required

What you could find

Reported finds from this ground.

Coins and tokensCoins and tokens

Also reported: galena, malachite, azurite.

Photos via Wikimedia Commons: West Yorkshire Archaeology Advisory Service, Amy Downes, (CC BY-SA 2.0).

Why this spot

Silver-lead veins near a town whose Nahuatl name records prehispanic green stone mining

Documented in both archaeological and mining district literature.

Before you go

Hazards noted for this site.

open shafts

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