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Bolivia, Oruro
Oruro tin-baron railway mining city
Old dump ground Documented siteRestricted
What you could find
Reported finds from this ground.
Old bottles
Coins and tokensAlso reported: industrial relics.
Photos via Wikimedia Commons: Sheila Sund (CC BY 2.0), West Yorkshire Archaeology Advisory Service, Amy Downes, (CC BY-SA 2.0).
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Why this spot
Victorian bottle era, historically mapped
Colonial silver real reborn as the center of Bolivia's tin boom after the railway arrived in 1892, when Patino's empire ran from here; mine tips and boom-era fringe remain.
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