A site that birthed exploitation as we know it, set high in the Bolivian Andes, the Cerro Rico de Potosí has been considered one of the richest sources of silver in history – a mountain now nearing collapse from 500 years of extraction. After centuries of damage to the local ecology, and lives lost in its mines to dangerous conditions, a city built on its wealth of resources has been stripped to the point of decline, culturally important as a symbol of colonial greed and over-exploitation.…read more at nowness.com
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