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Castilla-La Mancha, Castille-La Mancha

Hiendelaencina silver district

Mineral locality Documented siteGray area

What you could find

Reported finds from this ground.

Crystals and mineralsCrystals and minerals
Coins and tokensCoins and tokens

Also reported: pyrargyrite, freibergite, galena, barite.

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

Spain's 19th-century silver rush on epithermal veins in the Guadalajara hills

Documented classic Spanish silver locality with famous sulfosalt specimens.

Before you go

Hazards noted for this site.

open shafts

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