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Potosí, Potosí Department

San Cristóbal mine, Nor Lípez

Mineral locality Documented siteRestricted

What you could find

Reported finds from this ground.

Coins and tokensCoins and tokens

Also reported: sphalerite.

Photos via Wikimedia Commons: West Yorkshire Archaeology Advisory Service, Amy Downes, (CC BY-SA 2.0).

Why this spot

Colonial silver town relocated wholesale for one of the worlds largest open pit silver zinc mines

Documented modern mega mine in mining literature.

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