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Diamantina

Boom town, Brazil.

About Diamantina

Municipality of Minas Gerais state, Brazil.1

Where next

Places

An example ofOuro PretoAnother boom town in Brazil: Ouro Preto.1An example ofPotosiAnother boom town, in Bolivia: Potosi.1

Sources

  1. Wikidata item Q34028 (Diamantina)

From the Prospector Trails mining history dataset: each fact links to the source it was checked against. Figures are as the source gives them, in the money of their day. Not investment advice.

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Cover photos from Wikimedia Commons: Froth flotation and tailings by Nina111955, CC BY-SA 4.0; Conveyors, rail and ports by Kabelleger / David Gubler, CC BY-SA 4.0.