Marcos N. Quesada's scientific contributions

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En este artículo caracterizaremos las distintas escalas de producción de minerales y de reproducción social atestiguados en Capillitas, con la intensión de comprender las lógicas sociales subyacentes. En efecto, asumimos que el paisaje minero de Minas Capillitas no muestra un relato complaciente del triunfo del desarrollo tecnológico, como lo querí...

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... This is the case of the Capillitas Mine deposit (Catamarca, Argentina) that was intermittently mined, initially for copper and later for gold and silver between 1855 and 1930, when the richest veins were exhausted. Afterwards, copper mining was gradually replaced by the extraction of rhodochrosite (Delfino et al. 2014), a semiprecious stone widely employed in jewelry, the national stone of Argentina. In the former period, the ore containing copper bearing sulfurs was processed in the Muschaca smelting plant. ...