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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 tokensAlso 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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