Eva Chura is one of the magpies of the mountain. Living with their families in shacks in a gold shantytown in the Andes, these women make a living gleaning gold from rubble. They are called "pallaqueras" which roughly translates as 'gold-pickers.'

High in the Andes, Peruvian women dig for a few gold flakes in mining leftovers

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High in the Andes, Peruvian women dig for a few gold flakes in mining leftovers