In a widely-applauded move, Argentina’s senate has passed an Act to protect the country’s glaciers, which should curb Barrick’s plan to mine the massive Pascua Lama gold deposit. See http://www.minesandcommunities.org/article.php?a=10413….
…like border zones,” Lucio Cuenca, of the Chilean branch of the Latin American Observatory of Environmental Conflicts (OLCA), told IPS. One of the companies involved is Barrick Gold; another is…
…belt known as the Arabian-Nubian Shield. London-listed African Barrick Gold, Barrick Gold Corp.’s recent spinoff, is also looking at Eritrea for potential acquisitions, Chief Executive Greg Hawkins said recently. See…
In recent years there have been several accusations of severe human rights abuses being committed by “security” forces employed by one of the world’s largest gold miners, Barrick of Canada,…
A draft bill to protect Argentina’s glaciers edges closer to being passed, thus jeopardising Barrick’s proposed Pascua Lama gold mine and other projects. However, one of the country’s constitutional experts…
