A miner lights a dynamite fuse in the Cerro Rico mine in Potosí — Spanish for “Rich Mountain.” Mining in Cerro Rico is known as a dangerous profession. “They have whole graveyards dedicated to people who die in mine collapses,” says Andrea Marston, a researcher who studies Bolivian mining. “The peak of it has been slowly collapsing because there’s so much being removed from the inside.”

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A miner lights a dynamite fuse in the Cerro Rico mine in Potosí — Spanish for “Rich Mountain.” Mining in Cerro Rico is known as a dangerous profession. “They have whole graveyards dedicated to people who die in mine collapses,” says Andrea Marston, a researcher who studies Bolivian mining. “The peak of it has been slowly collapsing because there’s so much being removed from

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