Mines & Extraction · mine
Cerro Rico de Potosí
Bolivia · Underground
- Opened
- 1545
- Region
- Potosí
- Status
- Active
- Country
- Bolivia
- Notes
- The mountain that bankrolled the Spanish empire, still worked by cooperatives; so riddled with galleries that the summit is sinking.
- Type
- Underground
- Latitude
- -19.62
- Longitude
- -65.75
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