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[link to www.columban.com]
The project of the company Barrick Gold , in which Bush father is shareholder, tries to destroy ("relocation") three glaciers and threaten the headwaters of several major rivers on both sides of the continental divide, to extract gold and silver.


Pascua-Lama in Chile/Argentina in the newly-named, cross-border Frontera district, containing a 3,041 square kilometer landholding.


The Pascua-Lama project in Chile and Argentina is expected to produce an average of approximately 750,000-775,000 ounces of gold and approximately 30 million ounces of silver annually over its first ten years at average total cash costs of $130-$140 per ounce.(1) During the first five years, Pascua-Lama is expected to produce 675,000-700,000 ounces.

A broad coalition of Latin American environmental and human rights groups have called for a halt to Barrick Gold’s Pascua Lama project high in the southern Andes on the border between Chile and Argentina.

For additional details see [link to www.miningwatch.ca]

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