• In this second instalment on El Centenillo we visit the rest of its mine shafts, mainly Santo Tomás and El Mirador.
  • The high output of silver-bearing galena from its mines did not go unnoticed by foreign companies.
  • In 1867 the Sociedad Especial Minera Río Grande was founded, and later the “Centenillo Silver Lead Mines Company Limited” was registered, both of them English.
  • In 1921 the company was renamed “Minas del Centenillo S.A.”, now registered in Spain.
  • The exhaustion of the seams, together with strong foreign competition, brought mining in El Centenillo to a definitive end in 1963.