A MINING settlement 16,000ft up a mountain is the world's most remote city where locals work themselves to death.

La Rinconada in the Peruvian Andes is home to around 50,000 people whose life expectancy is reportedly just 30 to 35-years-old.

Living in freezing conditions surrounded by garbage and filth, the drinking sources are contaminated by poisonous mercury used to clean the gold found in the mines.

Dubbed the 'Devil's Paradise', residents reportedly suffer from lung diseases and respiratory infections which impact the nervous system causing memory loss, deformities, paralysis and eventually death.

Now, the settlers and others in La Rinconada say the gold supply is running out in the area.

“It’s not like it used to be. That’s why so many ugly things happen,” one said.

Miners have

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