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Silver mining is the extraction of silver by mining. Silver is a precious metal and holds high economic value. Silver is a precious metal and holds high economic value. Because silver is often found in intimate combination with other metals, its extraction requires the use of complex technologies.
More than 80% of the state's silver was a byproduct of copper mining; other silver came as a byproduct of lead, zinc, and gold mining. [7] The most productive silver district in Arizona that was mined primarily for silver was Tombstone in Cochise County, discovered in 1877. [7]
2023 Rank Country/Region Silver production (tonnes) % of total — World 25,790 100.0 1 Mexico: 6,400 24.8 2 China: 3,400 13.2 3 Peru: 3,100 12 4 Chile: 1,400
Silver mining in Nevada, a state of the United States, began in 1858 with the discovery of the Comstock Lode, the first major silver-mining district in the United States. Nevada calls itself the "Silver State." Nevada is the nation's second-largest producer of silver, after Alaska. In 2014 Nevada produced 10.93 million troy ounces of silver, of ...
Gold miners have recently come under pressure as they have been forced to publish their all-in-sustaining-cash-costs per ounce of gold produced or AISC for short. Traditionally, gold miners have ...
Bartolomé de Medina was a successful Spanish merchant who became fascinated with the problem of decreasing silver yields from ores mined in Spanish America. By the mid-sixteenth century, it was well known in Spain that American silver production was in decline due to the depletion of high-grade ores and increasing production costs.
After dipping to 11-year lows earlier this year, silver prices have regained lost ground on signals of a recovery in industrial activity - a positive for silver mining stocks.
Silver ore was first discovered in west-central Arizona in 1583 by Spanish explorer Antonio de Espejo, but no mining resulted.Again in 1598, Juan de Oñate led another expedition searching for Espejo’s silver; many claims were staked, but the expeditioners returned to Santa Fe without mining any silver, and the deposits remained unexploited.