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Portfolio: A Family of Miners in Bolivia, by Jonas Wresch

By David Schonauer   Wednesday October 22, 2014

Towering over the city of Potosi, Bolivia, the Cerro Rico mountain is home to  approximately 500 silver mines, 15,000 workers, and 200 families. In the 16th century, the mountain’s silver made Spain rich, but today the output has decreased and the mines’ workers toil for meager wages, notes Feature Shoot, …

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