CHILE Pascua Lama Gold Mine a Threat to Sustainability

Jun 05 2006CHILE Pascua Lama Gold Mine a Threat to Sustainability Industry The Pascua Lama gold-mining project in northern Chile threatens one of the richest farming valleys in the region of Coquimbo which is also the area in the country most heavily affected by desertification

Gustavo Gonzlez SANTIAGO Jun 5 2006 (IPS) - The Pascua Lama gold-mining project in northern Chile threatens one of the richest farming valleys in the region of Atacama which is also the area in the country most heavily affected by desertification Critics point out that the project endangers three glaciers an important source of water for the valley's farmers thus jeopardising

Nov 02 2019SANTIAGO Apr 10 2013 (IPS) - Environmental groups and indigenous Diaguita communities of the Huasco Valley in northern Chile celebrated a court decision Wednesday that will bring to a complete halt work on the Pascua Lama gold silver and copper mine belonging to Canada's Barrick gold "The mine was approved on the condition that the glaciers would not be touched

SANTIAGO Apr 10 2013 (IPS) - Environmental groups and indigenous Diaguita communities of the Huasco Valley in northern Chile celebrated a court decision Wednesday that will bring to a complete halt work on the Pascua Lama gold silver and copper mine belonging to Canada's Barrick gold "The mine was approved on the condition that the glaciers would not be touched

in this region of Chile (Escobar and Aceituno 1998) 15 Automatic weather stations (AWS) operated within the Pascua-Lama mine site show that temperature seasonality is linked to the annual cycle of solar radiation intensity (Fig 2) At La Olla station (3975ma s l ) annual mean temperature is + 1 C while

Barrick Gold's Pascua Lama Drama case is that of Barrick Gold's Pascua Lama mine in Chile The Canadian mining company's efforts to extract gold from the Huasco Valley in the Andes Mountains led to environmental damage such as glacial destruction and water

MINA PASCUA CHILE has the Gold and Silver yet far away from any Glaciers MINA PASCUA CHILE has access year round Argentina 6-9 months only MINA PASCUA CHILE has the mother load PROJECT FRONTERA + PASCUA LAMA were inventions of Barrick to pretend an Argentina side to the asset that NEVER WAS

Barrick's Pascua-Lama project is under construction in the Andes mountains in Chile and Argentina The mineral deposit spans the border between the two countries making Pascua-Lama the first bi-national mining project in the world The Veladero mine which Barrick built and has been operating successfully since 2005 can be seen in the distance

The Defeat of Pascua Lama

Mar 09 2016High in the Andes mountains along the border between Chile and Argentina construction at the Pascua Lama mine is at a standstill Once presented to investors as one of the largest and most valuable gold mining deposits in the world Pascua Lama has become a liability for miner Barrick Gold a cautionary tale for the mining industry and an unlikely (but still uncertain) victory for anti

Aug 07 2012Pascua Lama mine What Barrick didn't say Published by MAC on 2012-08-13 Source Statement (2012-08-07) Lama is the first bi-national mining project on the planet * Located in the Andes it straddles the border between Chile and Argentina in the Atacama Region and the Province of San Juan respectively Pascua Lama is under

Pascua Lama is a mining project at a large and complex poly-metallic orebody in the high mountains south of Atacama on the border between Chile and Argentina Its main product will be gold In early 2006 the project was approved by the environmental authority in the region of Chile where the mine

Chile court suspends Barrick's Pascua Lama mine by LUIS ANDRES HENAO Associated Press April 10th 2013 A Chilean court on Wednesday suspended Barrick Gold Corp's Pascua Lama mine after indigenous communities complained that the project is threatening their water supply and

Pascua-Lama is an open pit mining project of gold silver copper and other minerals Pascua Lama is located in the Andes mountains in the southern reaches of Atacama Desert straddling the border between Chile and Argentina at an altitude of over 4 500 metres Toronto-based Barrick Gold the world's largest gold mining company is developing the project

Pascua-Lama –Chile/Argentina Pascua-Lama is a gold/silver project whose orebody passes underneath the border between the Atacama region in Chile and Argentina's Cajamarca province This could potentially become Latin America's largest gold mine proven reserves stand at 17 5 million ounces of contained gold and 594 million ounces of

Surpreme Court of Chile Resolution 25/09/2013 (in Spanish) [click to view] A glocal environmental movement against gold mining Pascua-Lama in Chile Leire Urkidi Ecological Economics 2010 vol 70 issue 2 pages 219-227 [click to view] Conflictos por el Agua