Investor Presentaiton
Zacatecas: A Magnet for Indigenous Labor
In the next two decades, rich mineral-
bearing deposits would also be discovered
farther north in San Martín (1556),
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* VELARDEÑA
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Chalchihuites (1556), Avino (1558),
Sombrerete (1558), Fresnillo (1566), Mazapil
(1568), and Nieves (1574).
According to Dana Velasco Murillo, the
author of "Urban Indians in a Silver City," by
the 1550s, the Zacatecas mines brought in "a
consistent influx of indigenous immigrants
from western and central Mexico" because
they were given exemptions from tribute
collection. Wages and exemptions served as
"pull" factors for migrants, while the heavy
tribute obligations in central Mexican
communities functioned as "push” factors.
Sources: Dana Velasco Murillo, "Urban Indians in a Silver City:
Zacatecas, Mexico, 1546-1810" (Stanford University Press, 2016);
Peter Gerhard, "The North Frontier of New Spain" (Princeton
University Press, 1982).
AVIÑO
24%
Durango
PARRILLAX
Sembranete
1545-2000
20 Million ez Ag
700 gT Ag
1.507 Au
Sombreste
5545-2113
210 Million or Ag
700 gif Ag
1.5gT AM
SAN MARTIN
SOMBRERETE
MESOZOIC
SEDIMENTS
San Martin Dist
1560-2004
> Mtion or Ag
125-600 g Ag
0.2.1 g/t Au
1553-2004
1.1 Bon oz Ag
700 g/T Ag
FRESNILLO 06 T Au
Zacatecas
15132001
1on or Au
933 g Ag
2.5T A
ZACATECAS
CENOZOIC Rode Angeles
VOLCANICS on A
REAL DE
ANGELES
22
Aguascalientes.
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EXPLANATION
> > 1 B oz Ag
1669 1998
75-350 g/l Ag
200-500 M oz Ag
24
San Luis 22
Potosi
Gomato
1437004
1.3ion or Ag
850 at Au
48T Au
GUANAJUATO
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0
100
Kilometers
Map Source: Geo-Mexico: The Geography and Dynamics of
Modern Mexico: Fresnillo, Mexico's Leading Silver Mining
Town (Aug. 24, 2013).
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