The aim of this article is to analyze the ore dressing technics present during the peak production period of a silver mine in the Seventeenth-Century Andes, from an archaeological and historical perspective. It is not focused on the silver refinery constructions, or their description and social relationships, which are presented in the specialized literature, but rather on attention to the objects that were necessary for the silver production and to their location. We redefined those constructions, identified their social relations through historical sources and their characteristics regarding this particular period, type of mining camp, stage of the mines’ silver production, and the power and labor relations.

本文的目的是从考古学和历史的角度分析在十七世纪安第斯山脉的一座银矿的高峰期生产中存在的选矿技术。它不专注于专门文献中介绍的炼银厂结构或其描述和社会关系，而是关注对白银生产所必需的对象及其位置。我们重新定义了这些建筑，并通过历史资料及其在特定时期，采矿营地类型，矿山白银生产阶段以及权力和劳资关系方面的特征，确定了它们的社会关系。