By Helmut Waszkis
20 years of labor went into the writing of this: the 1st ebook to hide the background of mines and mining in North and South the USA. The textual content is enlivened via sketches of many miners the writer received to grasp over the a long time
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Yet probably no more than 30% of all finds come on to the (illegal) art market; most is probably melted down and enters the partly legal but mostly illegal (smuggled) bullion trade. In time, major centres of pre-Columbian activity were identified, foremost among them the Tairona region near Cartagena, on the Caribbean coast, the Choco just south of the Panamanian border, the Muisca around modern-day Bogota, and the Quimbaya west of Bogota. The Calima civilization was named after the valley of the same name, located just south of Quimbaya.
Mining and the production of metals became the prime mover of Mexico's economic development. It has already been said that attempts to put a value on the treasure, or successive treasures, that Cortés and his conquistadors took out of Mexico are meaningless. The same applies to estimates of the value of the precious metals taken out of Mexico throughout the three centuries of Spanish colonial rule. But it should be mentioned, as a curiosity, that Alexander von Humboldt, the German traveller of the nineteenth century, estimated that the total Mexican production of gold and silver bullion during the colonial period came to 2 billion pesos,15 or about 54000 tonnes of silver.
It is a thoroughly researched book which allows us to understand the full scope of society, industry, social movements and politics. By also covering, in the introductory chapters, the history of mining since the Spanish conquest, the book is really a complete review of the history of Mexico. I acknowledge that without Mr Bernstein's book, the interaction between the general history of Mexico and the role mining played in it could not be understood. 6. Ibid. 7. Ibid, page 10. I am essentially following the outline given by Bernstein.