From Spanish Mine to Modern-Day Exploration The Historic Gold-Silver Camp of Palmarejo

摘要

Palmarejo Silver & Gold Corp., based in Longueuil, Quebec, is a gold-silver exploration company reexploring a former Spanish silver district in far southwestern Chihuahua. Various owners over two centuries have come from no fewer than six countries. To see the road building and drilling occurring at the site to day, one would have little thought of its intriguing story of long ago when Spanish, Mexican, English, Ameri can, and Australian explorers first sought its riches. The first Spanish explorers and colonists into the Chinipas region were led by Gaspar Osorio in 1589 from Culiacan. In 1601, Captain Diego Martinez de Hurdaide led an expedition accompanied by a Portuguese Jesuit, Pedro Mendes. Due to Indian resistance, the founding of Santa Inesde Chinipas Mission was delayed until 1626. Further rebel lions drove out the missionaries and colonists, but Chinipas was reestablished in 1676. Soon Spanish miners discovered precious metals at Alamos (65 miles southwest), followed by the Chinipas district in 1737, and Topago and Chinipas in 1750.