Inside the Mountain That Eats Men

Young miners in Potosí, Bolivia risk their lives each day.

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Mining for Survival

Mines

A woman sells bags of coca leaves to miners on their way to the stifling silver mines of Potosí. Most miners say they simply couldn't enter the hellish mines without the numbing effect of chewing coca leaf. (Jeffrey Kofman/ABC News)

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