Talk:Silver rush

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First silver rushes in Colorado and Mexico[edit]

The article states, using websites as sources, that Caribou was the first silver rush in Colorado, and Planchas de Plata the first silver rush in Mexico. This illustrates the pitfall of using such websites as sources, rather than using more reliable historical accounts. Caribou was discovered some years after the silver rush to the Argentine-Montezuma area straddling Clear Creek and Summitt counties (see Silver mining in Colorado). Planchas de Plata, although it has a fascinating history, was discovered about 200 years after the much greater Mexican silver deposits of Zacatecas, Fresnillo, Taxco, and Guanahuato, to name just a few. Does anyone have any reliable historical sources to justify Caribou and Planchas de Plata as the first silver rushes in Colorado and Mexico? Plazak (talk) 13:46, 13 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]