The impact of mining in Bolivia
Thursday, November 25, 2010 - 12:30
in Physics & Chemistry
For many centuries, men have been exploiting the mineral wealth of the Andean Cordillera. The Incas, then the Spanish, extracted the gold and silver which gave their empires their splendor. Still today, gold and silver, but also tin, zinc, antimony, arsenic, cadmium and other metals are worked intensively. However, it is one of the most highly polluting of all human activities.