Eva Chura is one of the jaybirds of the mountain. Living with their families in shacks in a gold shantytown in the Andes, these ladies bring home the bacon gathering gold from rubble.
They are classified "pallaqueras" which generally deciphers as 'gold-pickers.'
Chura came 12 years back from her old neighborhood of Chupa in the Puno district to La Rinconada, a settlement of around 50,000 which is accepted to be the most elevated on the planet. Five of her eight kids live with her in her ridged zinc home.
The oldest is 13-year-old Natalie. Chura is as yet breastfeeding the most youthful, a kid called Alizon, and takes the child with her when she goes searching.
It takes Chura an hour to arrive at the site where the ladies work. At the point when they arrive, they generally plunk down and bite coca leaves, light two cigarettes 'for the holy people's and drink a little anise for karma. "Here and there's gold, different occasions no. Right now it's low," she said.