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Taxco

Boom town, Mexico.

About Taxco

Municipal seat of Taxco, State of Guerrero, Mexico.1

Sources

  1. Wikidata item Q990095 (Taxco)

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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