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Juan Chuqui, one of the thousands of miners working in the Cerro Rico of Potosi, the reach hill, at an altitude of 4,000 metres (13,000 ft). Miners have a live expectancy of 45 years and their work is basically manual, working in very poor conditions, with little changes since colony times.