Arqueros is a mining district in the

Chile Chile, officially the Republic of Chile, is a country in western South America. It is the southernmost country in the world and the closest to Antarctica, stretching along a narrow strip of land between the Andes, Andes Mountains and the Paci ...

an Norte Chico region. It is located 7 km northwest of the Talcuna

copper Copper is a chemical element; it has symbol Cu (from Latin ) and atomic number 29. It is a soft, malleable, and ductile metal with very high thermal and electrical conductivity. A freshly exposed surface of pure copper has a pinkish-orang ...

district.Arqueros Ag Mining District, La Serena, Elqui Province, Coquimbo Region, Chile
Mindat.org. The discovery of

silver Silver is a chemical element; it has Symbol (chemistry), symbol Ag () and atomic number 47. A soft, whitish-gray, lustrous transition metal, it exhibits the highest electrical conductivity, thermal conductivity, and reflectivity of any metal. ...

at Arqueros in the 1830s led the Norte Chico mountains north of La Serena to be exhaustively prospected sparkling the

Chilean silver rush Between 1830 and 1850, Chilean silver mining grew at an unprecedented pace which transformed mining into one of the country's principal sources of wealth. The rush caused rapid demographic, infrastructural, and economic expansion in the semi-arid ...

in the 1830s and 1840s.Villalobos, Sergio; Silva, Osvaldo; Silva Fernando and Estelle, Patricio. Historia de Chile. Editorial Universitaria 1995. First Edition: 1974. p. 469-471.

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Silver mines in Chile Mines in Coquimbo Region Mineral deposits discovered in the 1820s {{Coquimbo-geo-stub

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