About 400 mines are still being worked on Cerro Rico in Bolivia but they are all squalid, primitive and dangerous.

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About 400 silver mines are still being worked on Cerro Rico (literally Rich Mountain), the mountain in Bolivia which funded the Spanish empire for hundreds of years, but they are all squalid, primitive and dangerous.

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Location: Potosi, Bolivia
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