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Tuesday, December 2, 2014

Chilean Farmers And Foreign Mining Firms Face Off Over Andes Gold

Straddling the Chile-Argentina border high in the Andes, Canadian miner Barrick Gold’s Pascua Lama mining project has long been a source of controversy. The area is rich in gold, silver, copper and other mineral resources, but their extraction runs counter to the needs and interests of nearby indigenous communities and would have disastrous environmental consequences.
http://www.mintpressnews.com/chilean-farmers-and-foreign-mining-firms-face-off-over-andes-gold/199434/

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