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Quimbaletes are homemade constructions comprising a massive stone laid into a bath-like structure, also made of stone. In Santa Filomena there is a long and thick wooden plank fixed horizontally to the top of the stone. The ore is placed into the stone bath, and then mixed with water and mercury. One, two or more people seesaw the wooden plank, whereby the big stone grinds the ore and mixes it with the water and mercury into an amalgam. In Santa Filomena this is often the work of adolescents.
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