MINING

Potosi: Silver mountain of the Incas

Potosi is a small Bolivian village that played a huge role in mining's history

Sean Daly

In writing From the Erzgebirge to Potosi I chose both the Erzgebirge because that is where Agricola did his work on underground mining and Potosi also because of its rich underground silver resources and...

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