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Zacatecas

Real de Angeles (Noria de Angeles)

Mineral locality Documented sitePermission required

What you could find

Reported finds from this ground.

Coins and tokensCoins and tokens
Crystals and mineralsCrystals and minerals

Also reported: galena, sphalerite.

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).

Why this spot

Disseminated silver-lead-zinc deposit mined colonially and again as a giant open pit in the 1980s

Documented in modern Mexican mining literature.

Before you go

Hazards noted for this site.

pit walls, tailings

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