About 19 miles up the highway from our campground, and then 10 miles east on a “type 2” road (read: rocky, dirt surface, not paved) is an abandoned Onyx Mine called El Marmol, which we went to see today. There is an old school house at the site built entirely of onyx, though it no longer has a roof. There is also a cemetery, with perhaps 100 burial sites, each mounded with a pile of onyx on top, and no engraved rocks indicating whose remains are below, but each topped with a cross made of wood.
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