Occurrence of Attributes in Original Text
The text related to the cultural heritage 'City of Potosí' has mentioned 'Ore' in the following places:
| Occurrence Sentence | Text Source |
|---|---|
| Potosxc3xad lies at the foot of the Cerro de Potosxc3xad[4] xe2x80x94sometimes referred to as the Cerro Rico ("rich mountain")xe2x80x94 a mountain popularly conceived of as being "made of" silver ore that dominates the city. | WIKI |
| At peak production in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, the ore contained up to 40% silver. | WIKI |
| The ore deposits reside in veins present in the dacite volcanic dome. | WIKI |
| Hydrothermal circulation and fracturing soon followed, altering the dacite and depositing ore minerals and gangue in the veins. | WIKI |
| But by 1565, the miners had exhausted the direct-smelting ore, and silver production plummeted. | WIKI |
| While more skilled laborers extracted the ore, mitayos were tasked with carrying it back to the surface in baskets, leather bags, or cloth sacks. | WIKI |
| The largest sector of the population were native men, forced to labor underground mining the silver ore, but there were considerable opportunities for merchants and native traders, who became wealthy. | WIKI |
| They gathered in a confederation opposed to another one, the Vicuxc3xb1as, a melting pot of natives and non-Basque Spanish and Portuguese colonists, fighting for control over ore extraction from the mines and its management. | WIKI |
| Another explanation, given by several Quechua speakers,[specify] is that potoq is an onomatopoeic word that reproduces the sound of the hammer against the ore, and oral tradition has it that the town derived its name from this word. | WIKI |
| The Cerro de Potosxc3xad reached full production capacity after 1580, when a Peruvian-developed mining technique known as patio, in which the extraction of silver ore relied on a series of hydraulic mills and mercury amalgamation, was implemented. | UNESCO |
| The industrial infrastructure comprised 22 lagunas or reservoirs, from which a forced flow of water produced the hydraulic power to activate 140 ingenios or mills to grind silver ore. | UNESCO |
| The ground ore was amalgamated with mercury in refractory earthen kilns, moulded into bars, stamped with the mark of the Royal Mint and taken to Spain. | UNESCO |
| The industrial infrastructure comprised 22 lagunas or reservoirs, from which a forced flow of water produced the hydraulic power to activate the 140 ingenios or mills to grind silver ore. | UNESCO |
| The ground ore was then amalgamated with mercury in refractory earthen kilns called huayras or guayras. | UNESCO |