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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 tokens
Crystals and mineralsAlso 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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