Bolivia Protesters Halt Operations at San Cristobal Silver Mine

No big deal:  it's not like silver prices have been soaring or anything.  Gulp.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-03-30/bolivia-protesters-halt-operations-at-san-cristobal-silver-mine.html

Sumitomo Corp.’s silver, zinc and lead mine in Bolivia has been halted since last week by a strike, the mining ministry said.

Workers at the San Cristobal mine are demanding better health care, a government official, who can’t be named because of ministry policy, said today by telephone.

Sumitomo’s San Cristobal, in southwestern Bolivia’s mineral-rich region of Potosi, is the world’s third-largest silver mine and the sixth-biggest zinc mine.