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Zacatecas
Chalchihuites district
Mineral locality Documented sitePermission required
What you could find
Reported finds from this ground.
Coins and tokensAlso 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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