Real Seminario de Minería (Mexico City, founded by the Ordenanzas of 1783)

The mining college ordered for New Spain by the royal mining code of 22 May 1783: endowed places for twenty-five boys, Spanish or noble Indian, and — in the article next to it — free entry and free tuition for any child whose parents wished to put them into the career. Its professors taught mathematics and experimental physics, owed a written dissertation every six months, and its graduates had to spend three years at the mine face before they could be examined.