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 ...

Barrick said it would continue to explore options for Pascua-Lama, located high in the Andes on the border between Chile and Argentina, including royalty or other similar deals, or strategic ...

(Reuters) - Barrick Gold Corp said on Thursday it is suspending construction at its Pascua-Lama mine in South America, a surprise reversal on a project that has already cost billions after years ...

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 ...

Mining machinery and barrels with chemicals sit on the facilities of Barrick Gold Corp's Pascua-Lama project in northern Chile, Thursday, May 23, 2013. Chile's environmental regulator has stopped ...

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 ...

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 ...

SANTIAGO — A Chilean appeals court on Monday formally suspended Barrick Gold Corp’s controversial US$8.5 billion Pascua-Lama gold mine until the company builds infrastructure that will prevent water ...

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 ...

Chilean President Sebastián Piñera has entered the fray surrounding Barrick Gold’s decision to temporarily suspend construction on its troubled Pascua Lama gold mine which straddles up in the ...

SANTIAGO, May 28 (Reuters) - Canadian miner Barrick Gold has come to an initial agreement with local indigenous peoples in Chile who have opposed its stalled Pascua-Lama mine, taking a first step ...