Chile Is Pushing Miners Into a Deep Freeze

The country has revived a bill that's directed at the heart of Barrick Gold , the world's largest gold miner whose Pascua Lama project has been a lightning rod for controversy. Located high in the Andean mountains, the mine's critics contend the operation jeopardizes local water supplies because it delves into glaciers. Since mining is such a water-intensive effort, indigenous tribes have opposed allowing the project to expand because of fears it will contaminate their glacial water supplies, upon which they're heavily dependent.
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