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Chubut

Mina Ángela, Gastre

Mineral locality Documented siteGray area

What you could find

Reported finds from this ground.

Crystals and mineralsCrystals and minerals
GoldGold
Coins and tokensCoins and tokens

Also reported: sphalerite, galena.

Photos via Wikimedia Commons: Stephanie Clifford from Arlington, VA, USA (CC BY 2.0), BLM Alaska (Public domain), West Yorkshire Archaeology Advisory Service, Amy Downes, (CC BY-SA 2.0).

Why this spot

Closed gold silver base metal mine in the central Chubut steppe, worked until 1992

Documented polymetallic mine in Argentine geology.

Before you go

Hazards noted for this site.

open workings, isolation

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