This is the entrance to a closed silver mine near Tlalpujahua where native people worked as slaves to mine the gold and silver. The miners worked 10 to 16 hours a day.
The life expectancy of a mine worker was ten years. Because many of them started working at the age of 15, this meant that they died very young! Most died from a lung disease caused by the silica the accumulated in their lungs.
The miners pay was in mine script. The miners could only use this miner´s money at the miner store!
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