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Lota

Ghost town, Chile, founded 1662.

About Lota

City in Chile.1

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Sources

  1. Wikidata item Q16911 (Lota)

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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