Ruins Of Mineral De Pozos
by John Kolenberg
Title
Ruins Of Mineral De Pozos
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John Kolenberg
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Photograph - Photograph
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picture of some ruins from mineral de pozos,in guanajuato, mexico..For most of the past 100 years, Mineral de Pozos, founded in the 16th century, has been a virtual ghost town. At the end of the 19th century it was a thriving silver mining centre, home to 80,000 people, and so prosperous that Mexico's first stock exchange � the Bolsa de Valor � was established here to sell shares in the mines. But the Mexican Revolution of 1910, coupled with a dramatic fall in the price of silver, flooding and more war, meant that by 1927 all 306 mines had closed. By the 1950s, only a couple of hundred people remained.
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