The Veladero gold mine started operations in 2005, while the $8.5 billion Pascua Lama project is under construction. Pascua Lama will be one of the highest altitude mines in the world at between ...

The miner also delayed start-up of the mine to mid-2014 saying “the challenges of building a project of this scale and complexity were greater than we anticipated”. Pascua-Lama will be one of ...

Barrick Gold Corp., the largest producer of the metal, said the projected cost of its Pascua-Lama mining project on the border of Argentina and Chile rose by $1.4 billion on higher labor and raw ...

Barrick Gold’s highly-destructive Pascua Lama mine is scheduled to begin operation in mid-2014. In July 2007, CBC reported, “Prime Minister Stephen Harper was greeted with ‘Harper go home’ and ‘Canada ...

can begin extracting gold, the Canadian mining company's chief executive said Thursday. Barrick CEO Jamie Sokalsky said the Pascua-Lama project straddling the Chile-Argentina border will cost up ...