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Miners and people with rock containing gold ore at a facility where they can crush the rocks at the start of the process to extract the gold. The rocks are reduced to powder beneath big lumps of concrete, called a quibalete, on which they trample as if they were dancing. La Rinconada is a gold mining town that is the highest permanently settled community in the world (5,200 - 5,600 metres).