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Re:High in the Andes, a Mine Eats a 400-Year-Old City by rdlecler1 on Sunday December 06, 2015 @12:19PM (#10685795)
It looks like this was a town that sprung up around a silver deposit, not the other way around. That challenge of what to do now is the real problem.
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Re:High in the Andes, a Mine Eats a 400-Year-Old City by RogerL on Sunday December 06, 2015 @12:56PM (#10685914)
As the article states, the town has existed for 400 years, and until the 1950s mining was done with tunnels, not open pits.
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