A history of mining in Latin America : from the colonial era to the present / Kendall W. Brown.

For twenty-five years, the author studied Potosí, Spanish America's greatest silver producer and perhaps the world's most famous mining district. The author read about the flood of silver that flowed from its Cerro Rico and learned of the toil of its miners. Potosí symbolized fabulous we...

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Main Author: Brown, Kendall W., 1949-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, 2012
Series:Diálogos (Albuquerque, N.M.)
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