potosi?, page-2

Interesting murrays, thank you.
I've often reflected on how lucky Ustrlia was not to have been colonised by the Spanish - it could easily have happened. Eg:

" But the apparent wealth of Potosi, the highest city in the world at 4,090 metres, overlooked the human sacrifice that made it possible.
 Countless natives were taken into forced servitude to toil in the mines alongside African and Indian slaves, working in squalid and extremely dangerous conditions. While records of fatalities were not kept, historians and geologists estimate that about eight million perished in Potosi during the Spanish colonial period, from 1546 to 1825."

http://www.globalresearch.ca/cerro-rico-potosi-the-mine-that-funded-an-empire/27137