Looks like a Golden city at the height of 5 thousand meters (photo)
Here in the harsh conditions of mined gold ore.
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The town of La Rinconada in Peru is considered the highest inhabited place on Earth.
It is located in the Andes at the altitude of 5100 meters above sea level. Here oxygen is not enough, and the night temperature is always below zero.
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The city is almost no infrastructure, no Sewerage, and the environment is polluted with mercury. Is the access road to the town’s icy mountain trail.
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But still this place attracts many people. The fact that La Rinconada is mined gold. Reserves of gold ore here are large enough to lived in the city to 30 thousand people.
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Gold mining is carried out in very difficult conditions. Some miners work without pay. Instead, they carry with them some part of the ore mined.
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