
Have a Baja Moment! Discover Santa Rosalia and its Gaelic Roots. by Tom Gatch By the time that a humble rancher named Jose Rosas began noticing oddly round, green mineral deposits showing up in his soil back in 1868, the future of Santa Rosalia on the Cortez coast of Baja Sur had already been forged. After the small pellets were later analyzed on the Mexico mainland and determined to be copper, it was not long before foreign interests moved in and formally began excavating in 1870. By 1884 over 42,000 tons of copper and more than 6,000 ounces of gold had been …
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