Potosí's silver-lined 'mountain that eats men' is on the brink of collapse, threatening the lives and livelihoods of 15,000 miners
Bolivia's child miners: 'The Cerro Rico is a demon'
It was the mountain that bankrolled Spain's colonial empire, the Spanish Armada and the European Renaissance. The Cerro Rico, or Rich Hill, produced an estimated 2bn ounces of silver, making Potosí, the Bolivian city beneath it, the world's largest industrial complex in the 16th century, according to the UN's cultural body, which named it a world heritage site in 1987.
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