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Sinaloa

Copala-Panuco silver district

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What you could find

Reported finds from this ground.

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Coins and tokensCoins and tokens

Also reported: galena.

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).

Why this spot

Silver veins behind Mazatlan worked since the 1560s around picturesque mining villages

Documented district in Sinaloa mining records.

Before you go

Hazards noted for this site.

old workings

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