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Article: A Guide to Mineral Localities in Bolivia.
- Article from:
- The Mineralogical Record
- Article date:
- November 1, 2001
- Author:
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Bolivia, a landlocked nation three times as large as Montana, has been producing great mineral wealth since pre-Incan times, and remarkable mineral specimens for the last century and a half. Over the years, inadequate documentation, inaccurate copying, and deliberate falsification have introduced much corruption into Bolivian specimen labels. We hope to reduce the confusion with this gazetteer.
INTRODUCTION
Most people think of Bolivia as a land of great mountain ranges and high cold plains much resembling Tibet, but this description only fits the southwestern third of Bolivia. The two thirds of the country to the north and east are tropical lowlands, ...