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Centro Platero de Zacatecas

A collection of silver shops within the former silver-processing hacienda, where mercury-based enrichment (developed in Zacatecas and adopted throughout the world) was used for more than a century to get metallic silver from ore. The State of Zacatecas today still mines about half the world's silver, though the mines under the city are abandoned because of the danger of using explosives in an urban area.

Getting there: inside the Ex-Hacienda de Bernardez community in the neighboring city of Guadalupe
Hours: Mon-Sat 09:00-18:00
Website: centroplaterodezacatecas.com.mx (opens in a new tab)

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Listing from Wikivoyage: Zacatecas, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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