Historic Town of Guanajuato and Adjacent Mines
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- 1803-08
On 8 August he visited the Valenciana silver mine, then the most important in the Spanish empire. He studied not only its geology but the whole mining complex and its output figures, which went into the mining section of his Political Essay on the Kingdom of New Spain.
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