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During and after the Conquest, the working of the metal by the indigenous was disrupted. Many of the villages of the Pátzcuaro area were abandoned in large part due to the abuses by conquistador Nuño de Guzmán. The Spanish were soon aware of the copper deposits of this region and the indigenous’ ability to work it.
Copper products for sale in Santa Clara del Cobre, Michoacán. While copper was worked in some parts of Mesoamerica, modern Mexican tradition is Spanish in origin. [29] Copper working was initially ignored by the Spanish conquistadors as they were looking for gold and silver. It was not shipped to Spain as much as the other two.
Tumbaga is the name given by Spanish Conquistadors for a non-specific alloy of gold and copper, and metals composed of these elements. Pieces made of tumbaga were widely found in pre-Columbian Mesoamerica in North America and South America. The term is a borrowing from the Tagalog tumbaga. This came from Malay tembaga, meaning 'copper' or ...
The myth of the Seven Cities of Gold, also known as the Seven Cities of Cíbola (/ ˈ s iː b ə l ə /), was popular in the 16th century and later featured in several works of popular culture. According to legend, the seven cities of gold referred to Aztec mythology revolving around the Pueblos of the Spanish Nuevo México , modern New Mexico ...
For the New Spanish, America was a new land to explore for gold and silver and also to spread Christianity. The New Spanish named the people they encountered "Tarahumara", derived from the word Rarámuri, which is what the indigenous people call their men. Some scholars theorize that this word may mean 'The running people'.
Copper bells, axe heads and ornaments from various parts of Chiapas (1200–1500) on display at the Regional Museum in Tuxtla Gutierrez, Chiapas.. The emergence of metallurgy in pre-Columbian Mesoamerica occurred relatively late in the region's history, with distinctive works of metal apparent in West Mexico by roughly 800 CE, and perhaps as early as 600 CE. [1]
This was the first open pit copper mine in the Americas. [5] The Spanish forced the local indigenous people to work the mine, and imported slaves from Africa. [6] During the first decades of the 17th century copper from the mine, worked by slaves of African origin, was a major source of export revenue.
He named it Santa Rita del Cobre (Saint Rita of the Copper), after Saint Rita of Cascia and the existing mine. During the early 19th century the mine produced over 6 million pounds (2.7 million kg) of copper annually. [1] The crudely smeltered ore was shipped to Chihuahua for further smelting and then sent to Mexico City on mule back. [1]