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Cinco Minas district (Hostotipaquillo)

Mineral locality Documented sitePermission required

What you could find

Reported finds from this ground.

Coins and tokensCoins and tokens
Crystals and mineralsCrystals and minerals
GoldGold

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), BLM Alaska (Public domain).

Why this spot

Silver-gold veins of the Hostotipaquillo belt worked heavily from the Porfiriato into the 1930s

Documented district in Jalisco mining records and collector references.

Before you go

Hazards noted for this site.

open shafts, barranca heat

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