Uncia (mine)
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Uncia is a tin mine in the department of Potosí, capital of the
Rafael Bustillo province Rafael Bustillo is a province in the Bolivian Potosí Department. Its name honors the Bolivian diplomat and foreign secretary Rafael Bustillo († 1886). The capital of the province is Uncía with a population of 5,709 in the year 2001, the lar ...
in western Bolivia. It was served by a railway branch from Oruro. It was one of the mines owned by Simón Iturri Patiño.


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