SITE DIRECTORY

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6. When a huayrachina has become badly cracked by frequent firings and exposure to the elements, it is broken apart and discarded nearby. Sites where huayrachinas once stood contain small boulders that had been used to make the huayrachina base or to construct a wind break, irregular pieces of the huayrachina itself (usually vitrified and sometimes with slag adhering on the interior), small, slightly glassy lumps of slag, and pieces of charcoal.

• Charcoal making process
  
• Huayrachinas
  
• Preparing Ore
  
• Smelting
  
• Tapping Lead
  
• Remains of Dismantled
  Huayrachina
  
• Cupellation Furnace
  
• Preparing Silver Ore
  
• Preparing Cupellation Furnace
  
• Final Product.

Funding for this project provided by the National Endowment for the Humanities, the National Science Foundation, the Curtiss T. Brennan and Mary G. Brennan Foundation, and Colorado State University.

Questions about this webpage or the contents herein should be directed to: Andrew.Mueller@lamar.colostate.edu