Legendary Bolivian silver mine at risk of collapse
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POTOSI, Bolivia  - High silver prices are drawing a frenzy of miners to a colonial-era mine at Potosi in Bolivia, but the mine has become so dangerous that authorities fear the mine, part of a World Heritage Site, could collapse.
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BUENOS AIRES, Aug. 30 -- Intensifying labor strife, political infighting and budgetary pressures are threatening to chip away at the domestic support of Bolivian President Evo Morales, who took office in January promising to nationalize the natural gas industry and to achieve social equality for the...
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LA PAZ, Bolivia -- When President Evo Morales took state control of Bolivia's energy sector nearly two years ago, critics warned that investors would abandon the country's gas fields and ultimately sink the industry.
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The 141 miners trapped inside a north China mine following a gas explosion have no chance of survival and are presumed dead, a local communist party secretary has told AFP.
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SUCRE, Bolivia  - Bolivians sat down a month ago   to rewrite their constitution, but disputes and infighting   threaten to bog down President Evo Morales' plan to rebuild the   country on indigenous principles.
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Bolivia's president said Saturday the government should expropriate mines where private owners have not invested sufficiently, taking aim at the industry after clashes between rival bands of miners left at least 16 dead.
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President Evo Morales fired two top mining officials late Friday after a clash between rival bands of miners over access to the country's richest tin deposit left at least 16 dead and more than 60 injured.
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One of the last stands of dragonâs blood trees may soon succumb to the harsh environment.
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ANKARA: At least 19 miners were killed when a fire broke out in a copper mine in northwestern Turkey and as many as 20 more people were believed to be trapped in the mine&#39;s tunnel.
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The mining colony established by Christopher Columbus on his second trip to the Americas began to pilfer its own supply of ore in the face of rapidly deteriorating conditions, according to a new study.
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PARIS, Nov 13 (IPS) - The cancellation of a gold mining contract in  French Guiana has placed the spotlight on another project that is  continuing in Guatemala, at disastrous cost to local people and  the environment.
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Humankind's closest relative is facing extinction in the war-torn Democratic Republic of the Congo.
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From the ruins of a failed logging venture in Chile's Tierra del Fuego, an effort to manage and preserve the world's southernmost old-forest wilderness is about to begin.
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More than 2,000 union workers  prepared for a high-profile strike at Chile's Escondida, the  world's largest copper mine, starting on Monday after talks for  a new wage contract failed despite 11th-hour government  mediation.
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One of the country's few remaining coal mines is to close, the owners say.
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Combining nostalgia and nationalism, BoliviaÂs leader is lobbying to regain the Pacific coastline the country lost during its 1879 conflict with Chile.
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SEWELL, Chile  - Encrusted on the bare rock of the  Andes, Sewell is a ghost town now. But in its glory days 15,000  miners who dug copper out of the mountain lived in this  isolated, austere mining camp without cars or booze, under a  constant threat of avalanches.