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SANTIAGO, Chile -- Chile's environmental court today ordered Canada’s Barrick Gold Corp. to definitively close the Chilean side of its stalled Pascua-Lama mining project, a final procedural step that draws a line under a long-running saga.
The court, sitting in the northern Chilean city of Antofagasta, approved by two votes to one the closure of the polemical project that straddles the Andes Mountains between Chile and Argentina.
Barrick was told to close the mine by Chile's environmental regulator in January this year and fined $11.5 million. Today's court ruling rubber-stamps that order.
Barrick, the world's largest gold miner, did not immediately respond to a request for comment. * * *
