Packsaddle Mountain Spanish Colonial Smelter Site — Llano County

Texas Beyond History reports a second Packsaddle Mountain site containing several excavations plus the remains of a brick smelter. A modified natural fissure bears anchor points for a cable-hauling system to transfer ore to the smelter. Wikimedia Commons photographs document an old silver smelting furnace on Packsaddle Mountain, reinforcing local lore of Spanish and Anglo processing camps on the ridge. Mining features span Spanish Colonial, nineteenth-century Anglo, and early-twentieth-century periods. Evidence suggests no economically important silver deposits, but treasure tradition persists around slag, furnace pockets, and buried specie from aborted smelting runs. Related entry "Packsaddle Mountain Los Almagres Mine Workings" documents adjacent shaft complexes.