Article: Silver: Uchucchacua, Peru. (Connoisseur's Choice).

Silver was one of the first metals to be used by humans, with records of silver mines dating back at least six. thousand years. For centuries it was far less available than gold, and from that scarcity, coupled with the metal's general attractiveness and utility, grew its great monetary value. The need of dominant European countries for power-sustaining wealth demanded the acquisition of larger and larger quantities of precious metals, and the impact of this seemingly unquenchable thirst on human actions and destiny molded the development of large geographic areas, including much of western South America, specifically that portion dominated by the great Andes Mountains. ...

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