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  • Potosi - Cerro Rico (Rich Mountain) blood raw from having been skinned of silver
  • the shaft
  • this guy has been 50 years working the mines ... he is drinking 96% proof here
     
  • in the chill-out room
  • it's 10am and Oli is getting stuck in
  • inside now
     
  • scrambling up to the next level
  • drinking with the devil
  • doing rounds of shots
     
  • mood is starting to improve
  • drunk with the devil & Juan chewing coca leaves
     
  • concern about the poor quality fuse
  • setting to work now ... making the dynamite
  • cutting the fuse
     
  • planting 8 sticks of dynamite
  • no flash - this is how dark it really is ... Oli's about to light the fuse
  • striking the match
     
  • final photo before we leg it
  • sitting it out until the explosions end ... nothing better to do but get smashed
  • getting the rocks out
     
  • pushing the wagon on the tracks
  • shrine to el Tio inside - there's one inside every mine
     
  • day-light and fresh air once again
  • the processing plant crushing the minerals to determine the quality of iron ore
  • Oli shovels while the dude make offerings to the Pachamama
     
  • cracking open the beer
  • pop!
 
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