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Huanuni Tin Mine
The Huanuni tin mine is a large Bolivian mine situated about 60 km south of Oruro, Bolivia, on the way to the famous ''Villa Imperial de Potosí'', as the city was and is known since colonial times. The mine is situated in Bolivia's tin mining heartland and is the sister mine of the Colquiri mine tin-zinc mine. It was originally owned at the turn of the 20th century by Don Vicko Orlandini (Don Vincenzo Orlandini), who was a member of one of Bolivia's famous tin mining families and also owner of El Porvenir-Cataricahua, in Huanuni, Oruro, Bolivia. The Huanuni mine was later sold to Simón Iturri Patiño, a well-known tin baron. The mine was discovered by chance in the 19th century and was mined for a long time simply with the aid of simple tools; the means of transport were Donkey, donkeys. From 1930 to the late 1940s the Huanuni mine took Catavi Mine, Catavi mine's title of the largest underground tin mine in the world. This title would belong to the Huanuni mine to the end of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oruro, Bolivia
Oruro (Hispanicized spelling) or Uru Uru is a city in Bolivia with a population of 264,683 (2012 calculation), about halfway between La Paz and Sucre in the Altiplano, approximately above sea level. It is Bolivia's fifth-largest city by population, after Santa Cruz de la Sierra, El Alto, La Paz, and Cochabamba. It is the capital of the Department of Oruro and the seat of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Oruro. Oruro has been subject to cycles of boom and bust owing to its dependence on the mining industry, notably tin, tungsten (wolfram), silver and copper. History The city was founded on November 1, 1606, by Don Manuel Castro de Padilla as a silver-mining center in the Urus region. At the time it was named Real Villa de San Felipe de Austria, after the Spanish monarch Philip III. It thrived for a while, but it was eventually abandoned as the silver mines became exhausted. Oruro was reestablished by European Bolivians in the late nineteenth century as a tin mining center. I ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |