E/MJ : engineering and mining journal . opened up the Berengela district and made more acces-sible to rail transportation a number of other tin-produc-ing districts of that region. From Machacamarea, thenext station south of Oruro. Simon I. Patino is con-structing a private railroad to his mines at Huanuni and. MARITATA, OR HAND JIG, USED AT BOLIVIAN MINE Uncia. It is now in operation beyond Huanuni andwhen completed will also put the Llallagua mines on therailroad. The branch line from Bio Mulato to Potosihas now been in operation four years, and its course liesonly three miles north of the o
E/MJ : engineering and mining journal . opened up the Berengela district and made more acces-sible to rail transportation a number of other tin-produc-ing districts of that region. From Machacamarea, thenext station south of Oruro. Simon I. Patino is con-structing a private railroad to his mines at Huanuni and. MARITATA, OR HAND JIG, USED AT BOLIVIAN MINE Uncia. It is now in operation beyond Huanuni andwhen completed will also put the Llallagua mines on therailroad. The branch line from Bio Mulato to Potosihas now been in operation four years, and its course liesonly three miles north of the old mining town of which district it has made possible a revival of line has a length of 108 mi. and is the second high-est railroad in the world, reaching an elevation of 15,814ft., or only 51 ft. lower than the highest point on theMorococha branch of the Central Eailroad of Peru. AtUyuni the Compania Huanchaca de Bolivia has a line25 mi. long to its mines at Pulacayo, and a line is underconstruction to La Quiaca on the Argentine border to con-nect with the Argentine railroads. It is now in operationas far as Atocha, a distance of 51 mi. out of a total ofnearly 200 mi. This line runs through a mineralized areathat was of considerable importance formerly, and the in-troduction of mode
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