Many mints perform functions other than minting, notably refining precious metals and manufacturing medals and seals.
In ancient times, notably at Chichén Itzá, precious objects, such as jade, gold, copper, and incense and also human beings, usually children, were thrown into the cenotes as offerings.
Other precious or semiprecious stones abound in the same region, notably topazes, tourmalines, beryls, aquamarines, chrysoberyls, garnets, opals, and sapphires, as well as quartz of sufficiently high grade for use in the electronics industry.
A limited amount of precious-metal mining (including gold) occurs in the eastern Cascade Range, notably in the Wenatchee area.
He spent two months in an Australian hospital.Mr Ramos-Horta used the presidency as a bully pulpit, notably to warn Mr Gusmão's government about blowing too much of the country's precious oil revenues.
Works in gold, silver and semi-precious stones by the workshop's co-founders, Josef Hoffmann and Koloman Moser, and others — including, most notably, Dagobert Peche — magically blur the line between personal ornament and miniature sculpture.
