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12/11/2014 · Mina Rosario cooperative in Potosí, Bolivia. Photo credit: Brodie Noga, 2011. The earliest Bolivian mining cooperatives emerged in the 1930s out of the blood, dust, and thirst of the Chaco War. The war weakened the power of the ruling elites, allowing men and women to take over abandoned mines in the once famously wealthy city of Potosí.