In Quest of Mineral Wealth

Part I. Aboriginal. Aboriginal Metallurgy And Metalworking In Spanish America: A Brief Overview / Robert C. West -- Observations On Ancient Mining Within The Northwestern Regions Of The Mesoamerican Civilization, With Emphasis On Turquoise / Phil C. Weigand -- Pre-hispanic Metallurgy And Mining In The Andes: Recent Advances And Future Tasks / Izumi Shimada -- Copper Smelting In The Atacama: Ancient Metallurgy At The Ramaditas Site, Northern Chile / Gray Graffam, Mario Rivera & Alvaro Carevič -- Ethnohistorical Dimensions Of Mining And Metallurgy In Sixteenth-century Northern Peru / Susan E. Ramírez. Part 2. Colonial. Black Legends And Silver Mountains: Spanish Mining In Colonial Latin America Reconsidered / Otis E. Young, Jr. -- Early Silver Mining In New Spain, 1531-1555 / Robert C. West -- Technology Of Mining In Colonial Mexico: Installations, Tools, Artifacts And Machines Used In The Patio Process, Sixteenth To Eighteenth Centuries / Ramón Sánchez Flores --^ The Territorial Organization Of Metallic Mining In New Spain / Alvaro Sánchez-crispín -- Agricultural Colonization And Mining Colonization: The Area Of Chihuahua During The First Half Of The Eighteenth Century / Salvador Alvarez -- American Mining And European Mining, 1750-1820: A Comparative Perspective / Julio Sánchez Gómez And Guillermo Mira Delli-zotti -- Labor Force And Mercury Production In Almadén, Spain, 1759-1808 / Rafael Dobado González -- The Reception Of Modern Scientific Mining In An Enlightened Mexico / José Luis Peset -- Processes In The Advance And Retreat Of The Mining Frontier In Southwestern Colombia During The Colonial Period / María Clemencia Ramírez De Jara -- Spanish Colonial Silver Beneficiation At Potosí / Alan K. Craig -- The First Refining Mills In Potosí: Design And Construction / Peter Bakewell -- Silver Mining At Juantajaya, Viceroyalty Of Peru / Kendall W. Brown & Alan K. Craig --^ Attempted Technological Innovation In The Late Colonial Peruvian Mining Industry, 1766-1824 / John R. Fisher -- Early Petroleum Extraction And Tar-boiling In Coastal Ecuador / Karen Stothert. Edited By Alan K. Craig And Robert C. West. Papers Originally Presented At A Symposium On Latin American Mining Which Was Part Of The 47th Congress Of Americanists. Includes Bibliographical References.