Chilean court halts Barrick’s contentious Pascua-Lama project

By Cecilia Jamasmie

A Chilean court of appeals has ordered construction at Barrick Gold Corp.’s (NYSE:ABX)(TSX:ABX) Pascua-Lama gold and silver project to be halted immediately after approving complains filed by five indigenous groups last year, local radio station Cooperativa reports (in Spanish).

The Copiapo court ruling cites concentrations of arsenic, aluminum, copper and …read more