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PHOTOS: Dust And Danger For Adults — And Kids — In Bolivia's Mines

A miner lights a dynamite fuse in the Cerro Rico mine in Potosí — Spanish for "Rich Mountain." Mining in Cerro Rico is known as a dangerous profession. "They have whole graveyards dedicated to people who die in mine collapses," says Andrea Marston, a researcher who studies Bolivian mining. "The peak of it has been slowly collapsing because there's so much being removed from the inside." (Simone Francescangeli)
A miner lights a dynamite fuse in the Cerro Rico mine in Potosí — Spanish for "Rich Mountain." Mining in Cerro Rico is known as a dangerous profession. "They have whole graveyards dedicated to people who die in mine collapses," says Andrea Marston, a researcher who studies Bolivian mining. "The peak of it has been slowly collapsing because there's so much being removed from the inside." (Simone Francescangeli)

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