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La Rinconada is a town in the Peruvian Andes near a gold mine. [1] At up to 5,100 m (16,700 ft; 3.2 mi) above sea level, it is the highest permanent settlement in the world. [ 2 ]
A recent study by local industry chamber the National Society of Mining, Petroleum and Energy of Peru (SNMPE) said that illegal gold mining is responsible for about $6 billion in annual losses ...
La Rinconada: Puno: 5,100 16,728 The highest in the world according to National Geographic magazine (May 2003); [1] pop. 30,000. Barrio Rit’ipata, consisting of miners' shacks, is above it. [2] 2 China: Tuiwa: Tibet Autonomous Region: 5,070 16,634 Described as the "highest administrative village in the world" by sources such as China Daily ...
La Rinconada, Peru: 5,100 La Rinconada, Peru: Over 7,000 inhabitants, associated with a gold mine [13] Railway: Xining-Golmud-Lhasa at Tanggula, China: 5,068 Tanggula railway station building [14] Road (asphalted) Ticlio, Peru: 4,818 A signboard near the station of Ticlio.
In northern Peru, the World Bank's business-lending arm is part owner of the Yanacocha gold mine, accused by impoverished farming communities of despoiling their land in pursuit of the precious ore. The bank and IFC have stepped up investments in projects deemed to have a high risk of serious and environment damage, including oil pipelines, mines and even coal-fired power plants, an ...
It is the commercial hub for the La Rinconada high-altitude city of informal gold mining. [7] The city of Juliaca has become a center of capital investment. [citation needed] As a result, poverty has been reduced, and increased per capita income has come to some of its residents. [citation needed]
Artisanal mining can include activities as simple as panning for gold in rivers, to as complex as development of underground workings and small-scale processing plants. . Miners use a variety of methods to locate minerals, including historical knowledge, the observation of other minerals or rocks, or technology such as mineral detectors and audio-based reflection seismology surve
An example of such a specialized town is La Rinconada, Peru, a gold-mining town and the highest elevation human habitation at 5,100 metres (16,700 ft). [51] A counterexample is El Alto , Bolivia, at 4,150 metres (13,620 ft), which has a highly diverse service and manufacturing economy and a population of nearly 1 million.