Potosi: Cerro Rico cooperative silver mines

Where: Andes · South America · approx. -19.62, -65.75 (vicinity only)

Why this spot: Rockhounding locality: the mountain that bankrolled the Spanish Empire, mined for silver since 1545 and still worked by cooperatives; Potosi is UNESCO listed and on the danger list

What turns up: eyes-only: working veins, colonial galleries, Tio shrines; purchasable pyrite, sphalerite, silver ore from miners

Access: Licensed / permit.

Enter only with licensed Potosi tour agencies escorted by ex-miner guides (fee includes gear and gifts for miners): eyes-only inside, though miners and the miners' market sell mineral specimens legally

Satellite view, historic-map overlays, tide/flow context and field notes are in the app. Exact research detail is part of Pro.