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Silver and polymetallic mines

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Aljustrel mine

The Aljustrel mine is an underground copper, zinc, lead, and silver mine near Aljustrel in southern Portugal, owned by Almina and mined since Roman times as Vipasca.

Bottino

Bottino (Miniera del Bottino) is a historic lead-silver mine at Stazzema in the Apuane Alps, Tuscany, Italy. Worked from the Middle Ages, reopened by Cosimo I de' Medici in 1542, industrially developed in the 19th century, and definitively closed in 1969.

Dugald River mine

The Dugald River mine is an underground zinc, lead, and silver mine about 65 km north-west of Cloncurry, Queensland, wholly owned by MMG Limited and ranked among the world's top 10 zinc mines.

Escobal

Escobal is an underground silver-gold-lead-zinc mine in Guatemala, 40 km southeast of Guatemala City, producing about 20 million ounces of silver yearly from 2014 to 2017.

Lalor Mine

The Lalor Mine is an underground zinc, copper, and gold mine near Snow Lake, Manitoba, operated by Hudbay Minerals on a deposit it discovered in 2007; production began in 2012.

Neves-Corvo Mine

The Neves-Corvo Mine is an underground copper, zinc, lead, tin, and silver mine in the Baixo Alentejo region of southern Portugal, opened in 1988 and operated since 2025 by Boliden.

Peñasquito mine

Peñasquito is a polymetallic open-pit mine in Mazapil, Zacatecas, Mexico, producing gold, silver, lead, and zinc since 2009. Owned by Newmont, it is Mexico's largest gold mine.

Red Dog Mine

The Red Dog Mine is one of the world's largest zinc mines, an open-pit operation in the De Long Mountains of northwest Alaska producing zinc and lead since 1989.

Rosebery mine

The Rosebery mine is an underground polymetallic mine in Rosebery, on the west coast of Tasmania, Australia, wholly owned by MMG Limited and in continuous operation since 1936.

San Dimas mine

The San Dimas mine is an underground silver and gold mine near Tayoltita on the Durango–Sinaloa border in Mexico, mined since 1757 and owned by First Majestic Silver.

Stratoni

Stratoni (Greek: Στρατώνι) is a coastal village of about 1,200 people at the head of the bay of Ierissos on the Halkidiki Peninsula in northern Greece, and the site of an underground silver-lead-zinc mine.

Zinkgruvan

Zinkgruvan, meaning "the zinc mine," is an underground zinc-lead-silver mine in Askersund Municipality, Sweden, in continuous operation since 1857 and owned by Boliden since 2025.