Pushing Tin
Tuesday, May 15, 2007
HISTORICALLY, the three great world centers of tin production were Bolivia, Malaysia and Indonesia. The latter’s tin mines were located in Sumatra’s Riau archipelago, mainly on Bangka Island.
On the bleak altiplano in the high Andes of South America, generation after generation of Quechua- and Aymara-speaking ‘Indians’ worked the tin deposits in conditions of bitter exploitation. Before mechaniz
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