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The rest—fully 64% of his assets—is in stocks of gold- and silver-mining companies.
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Guanajuato, an important silver-mining center during colonial times, is now a lovely tourist city; its annual international Cervantino arts festival attracts culture-lovers from all over the world.
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Guanajuato, an important silver-mining center during colonial times, is now a lovely tourist city; its annual international Cervantino arts festival attracts culture-lovers from all over the world.
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This laid-back mountain town, a former silver-mining camp, is known for its craft brew and film festivals.
The Most Expensive Town in America Nancy Keates 2011
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The town subsequently became a trading post (gold and silver-mining) and for almost three centuries was the most important commercial center of a vast frontier area: north-western Mexico.
El Fuerte in Sinaloa, Mexico, was once the capital of Arizona 2009
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Samuel Ruiz Garcia was born Nov. 3, 1924, in the conservative silver-mining Mexican state of Guanajuato.
Samuel Ruiz, Mexican priest who sought rights for Maya Indians, dies at 86 Tracy Wilkinson 2011
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Back story: Aspen's roots as a 19th-century boom-and-bust silver-mining town were supplanted in the late 1940s and '50s when the ski resorts took shape.
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Guanajuato, an important silver-mining center during colonial times, is now a lovely tourist city; its annual international Cervantino arts festival attracts culture-lovers from all over the world.
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The town subsequently became a trading post (gold and silver-mining) and for almost three centuries was the most important commercial center of a vast frontier area: north-western Mexico.
El Fuerte in Sinaloa, Mexico, was once the capital of Arizona 2009
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In the late 19th century, the traffic was driven by lead- and silver-mining operations in Mexico.
Crossing Into U.S. Will Ease in One Spot Ana Campoy 2011
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