High in the Peruvian Andes, amid glacier-clad mountains and placid lakes that mirror clear blue skies and rust-streaked earth, a housing estate is taking shape.
“New” Morococha is nothing like the “old” Morococha, a mining town 10km down the highway where 5,000 people live on top of one of the world’s biggest copper and molybdenum deposits.
In the new town, gleaming white foundations reveal an orderly community-in-the-making. Unlike the original town’s ramshackle maze of tin shacks and painted adobe dwellings, the buildings being built by Aluminum Corp of China, or Chinalco, will have proper indoor plumbing and concrete walls.
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