It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places and includes three structures.

[1] The town was named after the famous silver-mining city of Potosi, Bolivia.

[2] The mines in the area produced gold, silver, zinc, platinum, copper, palladium, cobalt, nickel, and antimony.

[3][4] A small amount of carnotite (a vanadium-uranium mineral) was also discovered, but not mined.

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