Giant mine pit ‘swallowing’ 400-year-old Peruvian town

[caption id="attachment_840116" align="aligncenter" width="600"] Mine pit. Aerial | Wikimedia Commons.[/caption] The Peruvian city of Cerro de Pasco, perched high up in the Andes, is about to sink into the deeps of a half-century-old, open-pit zinc and lead mine that has been...