Mezcala Slate
Indeed, both slates of the children and the teacher were made with slate. Currently it is very useful in construction. Gravestones, houses, walls, decorative elements. Due to its structure and its impermeability, apart from construction, this rock is beginning to use in cuisine such as dishes, trays, etc,…by the advantages offered us their properties because it keeps well the heat as well as low temperatures. Legend or history the quarries of the note of Wales are famous for its fine slate, extracted from rocks of more than 500 million of age. The rock Bewitched legend has that long ago in a mine called Tata Vasco, there was a rock called slate, which was within this, there was a rock haunted by a man who had been inside the mine.
Anyone who tried to remove it could not ever leave her. Once a man named Jose, got into the mine to remove the slate because at that time said that everything that pulled the rock become the person richer that could exist in the town. Then I went and he managed to pull it off, but she didn’t know that the rock was Bewitched, so the person who had Bewitched it become spirit came out of the mine and since then is says that the spirit walks prowling around the village. It is said that long ago, near the town of Zumpango, Gro., a canada was formed with a shallow river current. There is still this river and it is very beautiful in the time of rains, at the foot of the River found a few small mountains of slate stone. A little old woman told villagers that those hills made them our ancestors, who put one stone upon another that will not leave River from its course and not flooded the population. It is also known that night comes a woman in white who takes care of the canada, so they say drivers who travel and asks them to carry it, this is because along with the mountains of this slate road free which leads to Acapulco, Gro. Particular observations there are quarries of slate in Wales, France, Germany and United States.
It is extracted in opencast mines and only in some underground mines. Stone is best divided when you have just extracted from the quarry. It is a product that cannot be replaced, since it is natural born directly of the Earth and leverages nearly as removed. The free road between Mezcala and Zumpango del Rio, Gro., there is a river that is surrounded by this kind of rocks, it seems that the same man built them, by the shape of its layers. Original author and source of the article.