86 SELLING LATIN AMERICA 
Bolivia may rightly be called the mineral 
storehouse of the world, for locked within the 
heart of her many mountains are untold riches, 
the tons which she has contributed to the uni 
verse being microscopic in proportion to what 
remains. Her inexhaustible dried lakes of 
borax and salt, glistening like snow in the pure 
air of the high elevation, have been scraped 
for centuries without apparently reducing 
their supply. There are many rich deposits 
of gold, silver, copper, tin, antimony, bismuth, 
borax, zinc, wolfram and coal. 
In the production of tin, Bolivia ranks sec 
ond, the chief producer being the Malay Pen 
insula. Tin forms about 70 per cent, of the 
total export of Bolivia, amounting in value 
to over $23,000,000, Great Britain taking 
about 90 per cent, of the output of the mines 
and selling it to the other nations of the world. 
There are yet enormous unworked deposits 
of this metal in this land. 
Bolivia is one of the largest bismuth pro 
ducing countries of the world and the third in 
the production of copper, and is rich in anti-