• Mining, Gold, and Silver

     · The search for gold and silver spurred Atlantic exploration, and from the 15th to 19th centuries, mines in West Africa and what became Latin America supplied much of the world's bullion supply. Early modern Atlanticbasin mining encompassed other, more prosaic minerals, including iron, copper, mercury, salt, and even petroleum tar, but ...

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    just the latest phase in a long history of gold mining in the region. In the Upper Amazon basin, Tlpuani is a typical example. Its gold fields are in the Andean foothills of north ern Bolivia ...

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  • In Bolivia's Amazon, wild gold mining boom stokes tension .

     · In Bolivia's Amazon tensions are rising over a boom in wild gold mining that is driving a surge in imports of mercury used to extract the precious metal and is sparking conflict between small ...

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  • Whitehorse Gold Corp. | Home

    The Porvenir polymetallic SnZnAg (TinZincSilver) project is loed in the west central region of Bolivia, 65km southeast of the city of Oruro, in the Oruro department (Figure 1). The sqkm property encompasses historical near surface open pit and underground workings, which exploited the deposit on a limited scale.

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  • Battle Mountain Gold Company |

    In 1996 the company merged with Hemlo Gold Mines, Inc., a ... but once Kori Kollo began producing the company looked to Bolivia for its most important supply of gold. During its first year the Kori Kollo mine produced in excess of 300,000 ounces of gold, a benchmark it would eclipse during its first three years of production. Mid1990s. With the production facilities at .

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  • Mining

     · The older mining regions (Mexico, Peru, and Bolivia) had more difficulty adapting to independence, in part because they remained too tied to their colonial mining laws and policies but lacked the resources to subsidize the industry as Spain had done. Besides gold and silver, other minerals became important. In the early 1900s, for example, Bolivia became one of the .

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  • Battle Mountain Gold Company Company History

    One of the largest gold miners in the United States, Battle Mountain Gold Company mines and processes gold, silver, and copper ore at seven mines on three continents. Formerly a unit of The Pennzoil Company, Battle Mountain was spun off from Pennzoil in 1985, emerging on its own with its mainstay Fortitude mine in Battle Mountain, Nevada. To increase its reserves and .

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  • Barrick Gold

    Barrick Gold Corporation is a mining company that produces gold and copper with 16 operating sites in 13 countries. It is headquartered in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It has mining operations in Argentina, Canada, Chile, Côte d'Ivoire, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Dominican Republic, Mali, Papua New Guinea, Saudi Arabia, Tanzania, the United States and Zambia.

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  • History of La Paz

    The Chileans entered the country at the coast for the salitre and the guano (Nitraterich dung). The result of this brutal war was the loss of Bolivia's coast land to Chile. 1898 La Paz becomes de facto Bolivia's new administrative capital and the seat of the government, thus starting the process of development into the large city it is today.

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  • Mining

     · During colonial times, Peru (including what would also become modern Bolivia) and Mexico were the main Spanish American mining centers, which yielded far more silver than gold. They used some slaves but primarily Indian labor to work the mines. New Granada, especially what became Colombia, was rich in gold rather than silver.

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  • In Bolivia's silver mountain, artisanal miners turn to coca and the ...

     · CERRO RICO — Next to one of Bolivia's poorest cities lies one of the richest silver mines in the history of mankind – Cerro Rico, Spanish for 'Rich Mountain – a oncelegendary source of wealth for the Spanish Empire that is now being dug out by artisanal miners.

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  • The burden of gold Child labour in smallscale mines and quarries

     · In Bolivia, mining represents about 40 per cent of the country's foreign currency income coming from mineral exports. More than 30 per cent of the mining exports and 85 per cent of the total employment generated by the sector come from mining cooperatives and other smallscale mines, which are sustained by the participation of all family members, including .

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  • In Bolivia's Amazon, wild gold mining boom stokes tension .

     · The rise in wild mining has seen Bolivia, a country of some 12 million people, become the world's top importer of mercury since 2019, according to the Observatory of Economic Complexity (OEC),...

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  • In Bolivia's Amazon, wild gold mining boom stokes tension .

     · BENI RIVER, Bolivia, June 10 (Reuters) – In Bolivia's Amazon tensions are rising over a boom in wild gold mining that is driving a surge in imports of mercury used to extract the precious metal and is sparking conflict between smallscale prospectors and .

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  • In Bolivia's silver mountain, artisanal miners turn to ...

     · Next to one of Bolivia's poorest cities lies one of the richest silver mines in the history of mankind – Cerro Rico, Spanish for 'Rich Mountain – a oncelegendary source of wealth for the ...

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  • Whitehorse Gold Signs Agreement to Acquire Interest of .

     · Whitehorse Gold Corp. announces that its whollyowned subsidiary, Stannum Metals Corp., on August 22, 2022 signed an agreement to acquire a interest in a private Bolivian incorporated mining ...

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  • Amalgamation and smallscale gold mining in the ancient Andes

    In 1532, the volume of gold provided by Atahualpa, the Inka king, as ransom for his release from the Spanish was hard evidence for the efficient smallscale gold mining that took place before European contact and the number of gold occurrences in the Andes. At Huancavelica, Perú, mercury occurs as a native metal and as cinnabar [HgS], which was used for pigments, funeral .

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