A ruling from a Chilean court to halt work on the world’s most ambitious gold project marks a growing backlash against the industry in one of the world’s most mining-friendly areas.
The Pascua-Lama gold and silver project straddles the Andes mountain range between Chile and Argentina and is slated to go into production this time next year, if project owner Barrick Gold Corp. can convince an appeals court in the northern town of Copiapo – population 167,000 – that it isn’t polluting the water supplies of indigenous communities.
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