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'Mining for gold above the highest-known inhabited settlement in the world'

MINING.COM Staff Writer | December 12, 2011 | 6:13 am Precious Metals Europe Latin America Gold 

Jennifer Wells, writing for the Toronto Star, looks at the allure and the dangers that mining is bringing to the poor in Peru. The work is gruelling and dangerous. Ruben Aliaga speaks of rock falls and of the “death gas”...

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