Smokes, cola, dynamite and amonium nitrate
Dynamite on the street
At the mine
Worker filling the cart
No biggie, just holding the dynamite
The holes in the rock behind are where the dynamite will go
Monday, November 19, 2012
Into the mines
Arriving in the highest city in the world (Potosi) at 4100m, we were excited to crawl into dark, dusty, hot, smelly mines! In the miners market you can find women selling slices of fruit, cola, and dynamite! Why not right¿ One stop shop! We bought colas and coca leaves as gifts for the miners and headed to the mines. These mines are currently all active extracting zinc and plumett 2 km into the mountain. Putting on our hard hats and lights we started sloshing through the dark muky passages! Climbing down 6 stories we came across a worker who was getting ready to blast! Heading out before the blasting seeing the light at the end of the tunnel was welcoming. I can´t imagine working down there for 8 hours a day!
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