Much of the mining takes place in the nearby red "Cerro Rico" (literally, "Rich Mountain" in English), which was given its ...

Over the weekend a bus crash in Bolivia claimed the lives of 37 after two busses collided after one of the buses encroached ...

Miners in Bolivia spend hours searching for silver, tin, and zinc inside Cerro Rico, a 15,000-foot mountain that used to be the world's largest source of silver. But little has changed for miners ...