After two cyanide spills since last year, Veladero is the focus of multiple court cases, a provincial investigation, criminal charges against current and former workers and environmental protests. Pascua-Lama has been suspended since 2013 due to political opposition, labor unrest and weak gold prices.
In the four years to 2014, 68 percent of the 210 "regulatory actions and incidents" reported by Barrick were in Argentina, according to company disclosures, though it has 13 other mines in nine countries.
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