90Piesanhour I'm surprised language was such an issue back then. Mere survival would have been a bigger issue. RE miners, Patagonia is not generally thought of as a mining area - it's a big flat windswept plain, land of the gauchos. Mexico and Chile, Peru, Bolivia and other high Andean countries are more mine oriented. Mexico for example has a massive Cornish influx/influence in some areas. Although from reading that article miers would have been handy to help dig the shelters that the first welsh settlers lived in.