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The Valenciana Mine, known as Mina de La Valenciana in Spanish, is located in Guanajuato, Mexico. Valenciana is about 6 km from the Historic Center, Guanajuato, Guanajuato. [1] [2] La Valenciana Mine, Historic Guanajuato City, and surrounding mines are part of a UNESCO World Heritage Site. [3] It began to exploit silver in the 16th century. [4]
In Guanajuato, jewelry making focuses on cast silver in colonial style often decorated with images of birds along with glass beads and pearls. [20] In Pátzcuaro , artisans made necklaces and earrings of smooth or scratched silver, often with small dangling fish, combined with red and black porcelain beads.
The La Valenciana or San Cayetano church is an 18th-century Mexican Churrigueresque church built at the opening of the La Valenciana mine, the site of the largest vein of silver found in Mexico. It was built by Antonio de Ordóñez y Alcocer, the owner of the mine, to give thanks to his patron saint, Saint Cajetan , for the riches the mine ...
With so much information to relate from my recent tour of Endeavour Silver's (NYS: EXK) operations in Mexico's Guanajuato silver district, I scarcely know where to begin. But every story has a ...
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The discovery of silver and gold in the area of the city of Guanajuato spurred Spanish settlement of the area in the 1520s and 1530s. [26] Following the Spanish arrival, native tribes retreated to the most inaccessible areas of the Bajío and to the mountain ranges in the state, resisting the invaders, attacking settlements and travelers along ...
A Mummies of Guanajuato display Photo of 1897 of the mummies of Guanajuato at 'Old Mexico, 1897,' collected by F. M. White. The city's most famous tourist attraction [ 34 ] is the Mummies of Guanajuato , which are in their own museum on the side of the municipal cemetery in the Tepetapa neighborhood.
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