Tuesday, November 27, 2007
Cerro rico - el dia despues
Both of us weren`t feeling to good after the trip to the mine. My throat felt like it had a layer of skin taken off it. That was just after 40 minutes.
I have worn silver in the past and also had some black and white film developed (very nice but expensive), I never even thought of where the silver came from nor what the workers went through to get the silver out of the mine. But what should we do, there are not really other opportunities for those workers. The government at least should make some legal requirement for companies to supply respiration gear for free and guards and the machines. Well we were told that 11 years ago that the mine only had another 7 years of life due to the honey comb effect of 500 years of mining. Collapse of Cerro negro and the economy it produces is imminant. There are 15,000 miners that work in/on cerro rico, it is a disaster waiting to happen.
I have worn silver in the past and also had some black and white film developed (very nice but expensive), I never even thought of where the silver came from nor what the workers went through to get the silver out of the mine. But what should we do, there are not really other opportunities for those workers. The government at least should make some legal requirement for companies to supply respiration gear for free and guards and the machines. Well we were told that 11 years ago that the mine only had another 7 years of life due to the honey comb effect of 500 years of mining. Collapse of Cerro negro and the economy it produces is imminant. There are 15,000 miners that work in/on cerro rico, it is a disaster waiting to happen.
