‘The Mountain that Eats Men.’ This Bolivian town is the only place in the world where you can legally buy dynamite
For $2 a go, tourists can purchase sticks of dynamite and experience them exploding in the “nightmarish” subterranean world ...
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Bolivia's Morales “delays” mining nationalization
A crash in world tin prices during the 1980s prompted the Bolivian state mining company Comibol to lay off tens of thousands of workers. But more recently, rising demand, particularly from China ...
Tin bulls in retreat as Myanmar flags return of key mine: Andy Home
The Wa State, a semi-autonomous region of Myanmar, has finally broken its year-long silence on the fate of the Man Maw tin ...
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Bolivia’s Morales nationalizes zinc and tin mines licensed to Swiss group
Bolivia announced on Sunday the nationalization of the mining company Colquiri to the ... controls Colquiri for the exploitation of zinc and tin with 400 miners. The Bolivian government said ...
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Why 'The Mountain That Eats Men' Is On The Verge Of Collapse
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 ...
"Mountain That Eats Men": In This Town, You Can Legally Buy Dynamite
Much of the mining takes place in the nearby red "Cerro Rico" (literally, "Rich Mountain" in English), which was given its ...
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‘The Mountain that Eats Men.’ This Bolivian town is the only place in the world where you can legally buy dynamite
The Bolivian mining city of Potosí is the only place in ... much of it is for cheaper minerals like tin and zinc. Hundreds of miles of mine shafts have made the mountain unstable — as a result ...