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Argentine high court ruling delays mining in glacier and peri-glacier areas
Canadian mining giant Barrick Gold Corp. suffered a legal setback on Tuesday as Argentina's Supreme Court reversed preliminary injunctions that have blocked key parts of a glacier protection law. Read full article
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Disclaimer & comment rulesA mine to far, perhaps .
Jul 04th, 2012 - 06:45 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Think is happy........................
Jul 04th, 2012 - 07:11 pm - Link - Report abuse 0.............Condorito is not.
Jul 04th, 2012 - 07:26 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Think, next time you are out riding, ask your horse if he is happy with his horse shoes. If you don't like mining you shouldn't use metal.
Barrick mined a similar, high altitude gold mine just south of Pasca Drama (above the Elqui Valley) for 30 years. They were extremely responsible. The Rio Elqui is still pristine, the sky above is still as clear as you could wish. The goats cheese and river shrimp are still heavenly.
Another nail in the coffin of Argentinian exports. Are they going to have any functioning private enterprise left in a year?
Jul 04th, 2012 - 08:00 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Think used to say,
Jul 04th, 2012 - 09:51 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Another nail in the coffin ,,
sadly he run out of nails .
Mining is one of the most profitable industries: http://blogs.crikey.com.au/pollytics/2010/06/15/how-profitable-is-mining
Jul 04th, 2012 - 11:57 pm - Link - Report abuse 0http://blogs.crikey.com.au/pollytics/2010/06/15/how-profitable-is-mining
Sorry Angry Brits!
Thank you CFK the People of San Juan are deeply indebted, we need more judges like thisone. Too bad the reporter didn't print his name.
Jul 04th, 2012 - 11:57 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Nice to see the rule of law at work in Cristina's Argentina =)
Jul 05th, 2012 - 10:32 am - Link - Report abuse 06 PGH
Jul 05th, 2012 - 12:17 pm - Link - Report abuse 0we no angree,
you have to dig it,
or should we say,
the poor miners have to dig for victory,
and the owners pray for proffit.
angree not in the least old chap.
San Juan is highly relient on mining, it is the major source of jobs and economy to the region. Mining accounts for 23% of the total gross domestic product of the region What else is there for San Juan without Mining?
Jul 05th, 2012 - 12:54 pm - Link - Report abuse 0It is very easy for people to critise when they come from regions with Agriculture or industry. However we all use metals and as such have to accept that mining will occur.
The mining operation at Pasca-llama creates 6,500 direct jobs and another 30,000 spin off jobs (i.e. consultants, cateerers, etc). That is 36,500 people able to support their families and not be relient on handouts.
If we all want to go back to the stone age then fine, but you all need to turn your computers off because they use metals.
From personel knollege 95% of the ore body is not under a glacial and the 5% that is is protected under the terms of the mining license. This is once again groups with an alternative agenda inventing problems in their ultimate objective to getting all mining shut down.
In addition as the govenor of San Juan is an ex engineer and very pro mining mining will continue in San Juan for a long time, there are lots of mining operations about to take off here.
Argentina is hindering this proyect, since it came out, that 80 percent of the resources are on the Chilean side and subsecuently all would be processed in Chile. This would result in only 20% of the general taxes to be deducted to Argentina. Just plain sore losers... similar with what happened to the pulp plant in Uruguay. Inititally planned for Argentina, the Uruguayans won the investments and Argentina got sore and demanded them @ Den Hague... and lost.
Jul 05th, 2012 - 02:48 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Barrick changed their plans over and over in order to comply with environmental concerns on both sides of the boarder. The permits were eventually granted and the construction began. The authorities in Argentina could have legitimate reason to halt work on that side but for those of us close to these issues it looks like nothing more than extortion.
Jul 05th, 2012 - 05:10 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Barrick were so naive to invest on the Argie side to start with. It is a technically difficult project, add to that the environmental constrains, bureaucracy, corruption and an inept workforce and you have a high risk project.
Engineer Abroad: They should have run this as a completely Chilean project. Why didn’t they do that?
Barrick gold is a mining firm used by the KKK to destroy productive land and hunger native people. Barrick always knew about toro1 and toro2 glaciers if they lie about something we all knew, what else are they playing blind and stupid on?? If Barrick is good for Chile let them pollute their land and children we Won't risk it in Argentine's.
Jul 08th, 2012 - 03:11 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Pirate hunter, I live in the Province of Elqui. As I said, Barrick mined El Indio for 30 years at the top of the valley and they didn't contaminate the soil or the air. You really shouldn't believe all the hype. Have a look for yourself, or ask the 100,000 Argies who visit Elqui every year.
Jul 09th, 2012 - 12:29 am - Link - Report abuse 0If it isn't grown or fished, then it is mined. Mining is a noble profession. Almost everything we own is hacked out of the ground. It is the industry that feeds all others.
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