Bolivia has a lot of natural recources. One of these recourses is tin. Tin has kept the Bolivian economy running.
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| Gold is the thing that made all
the prospectors and other people looking for a better life come to
California. The thing that made lots of people poor is that they
didn’t find any gold. These people started great businesses like
Abercrombie and fitch and William Sonoma. Another way that people
made money was by "mining the miners". This meant selling to the
miners the miners needed for mining gold. Mining gold is very
expensive so you had to be rich to be a successful miner. The
things that the shop guys sold were boots, pans, food hydraulic mining
water guns and mercury to take the gold out of the ore. There
were a lot of different types of mining. Two of these were
panning for gold and hydraulic mining. Panning for gold was the
most popular way to find small bits of gold in rivers and
streams. Some people still use the technique of panning for gold
today. Another way of mining for gold is hydraulic mining.
This involves a high-powered water gun that shoots water at a cliff and
the gold falls too the bottom. After the gold falls they search
for gold. Bolivia has a lot of natural recources. One of these recourses is tin. Tin has kept the Bolivian economy running. |