Meet the women who scavenge for gold at the top of the world

Eva Chura, 42, who is a pallaquera (a female gold picker) strikes rocks that were discarded from a mine in search of gold in the town of La Rinconada, in the Andes, Peru, October 11, 2019. REUTERS/Nacho Doce

LA RINCONADA, Peru (Reuters) - 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.'