Touring Mines and Mining Tourists

Pretes, Michael

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Touring Mines and Mining Tourists

Date

2002

Authors

Pretes, Michael

Publisher

Pergamon-Elsevier Ltd

Abstract

Potosí, a colonial city in the highlands of Bolivia, was once the glory of the Spanish empire, with the richest mines in South America. The city's working silver mines, established in 1545, are a distinctive tourism attraction. Unlike in many other minin