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Potosí, Potosí Department

San Vicente silver mine

Mineral locality Documented siteRestricted

What you could find

Reported finds from this ground.

Coins and tokensCoins and tokens

Also reported: sphalerite, galena.

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

Why this spot

Remote puna silver zinc camp, notorious as the place Butch Cassidy died in 1908

Documented mine in Bolivian mining records.

Before you go

Hazards noted for this site.

altitude, isolation

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