President Victor Paz Estenssoro needed more money to shore up his country’s nationalized tin mines; the tin baron ... head of what was once the richest of Bolivia’s tin baronies, agreed ...

The Pitinga mine in the Amazon holds the world’s largest tin resource by tin content, with reserves of 279,000 MT expected to sustain production for at least 30 years. Bolivia makes the list ...

Tin has a long history as a key metal in global economic growth. Alloyed with copper to make bronze, tin is recognized as one of the seven metals of antiquity. Today, the critical meta is ubiquitous ...

Closed as a working mine in 1990, Geevor Tin Mine is now a preserved mining site and museum, the largest preserved mine site in the country. Visitors can discover how tin was mined here ...

with thousands putting their lives at risk inside mines that could collapse at any moment. More from Risky Business Miners in Bolivia spend hours searching for silver, tin, and zinc inside Cerro ...