The spending power of people from emerging economies is driving the price of gold up to record highs. but at what cost? A controversial mine in northern Chile could threaten one of the most fertile valleys in the driest area of the country. Lucia Newman reports.

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25 Comments to “The environmental cost of Chile’s gold mines – 08 Jul 07”

  1. joerakes says:

    hey guys, have a look at legend of someplace special on here

  2. regusted says:

    Newman really overdoes it with the hypercorrect pronounciation of Spanish place names and proper names. Kind of like how they do on NPR. and in the SNL skit where they spoofed the reporter who kept saying “Nicərrrrrrrawə!’

  3. acedagaiin says:

    watch my haarp play listfor the conneection to mining chemtrails ufos & maybe earthquakes as well

  4. FrauVal029 says:

    money today, starving tomorrow.Barrickgold,pieceof shit!
    murder of environment!

  5. rajurias says:

    este ultimo comentario de nickbsas es realmente lo q se necesita para de una ves por todas decirles a estos gringos capitalistas de mierda q con los **third world countries**como ellos nos llaman no se juega ,no a estos gringos de mierda..saludos desde canada

  6. CANDY10ENERO says:

    Hi Kuorerock
    This project didn´t get approved by Michele, it was approved with Frei and Menen in 1997 “Tratado Binacional Minero” They´ve been modifying the project, because people from the valley were against Pascua Lama. Barric Gold has so much power that even the media in Chile are sold, they don´t inform about this, most of the Chilean people have no idea about this. Terrible, i hope we can do something ….

  7. CANDY10ENERO says:

    Hola, ese tratado lo firmó Eduardo frei durante su gobierno en 1997, se llama “Tratado Binacional Minero” y lo firmó junto a Menen de Argentina. De donde eres?

  8. Cball06 says:

    Hola Candy10ENEro, tienes mas informationes sobre el Frei q firmo el aprobacion. Sabes E. Frei sus padres fueron suizos el Marc Rich ex jefe de Xstrata (hoy Barrick Gold) es tambien suizo…esque estoy trabajando para un doc. gracias..

  9. leydemurphy says:

    hey Barrick is a canadian co. from YOUR country…

  10. vanessaguevara says:

    Mexico Argentina y Chile deberian de unir fuerzas y luchar contra este tipo de abusos de estados unidos y canada!
    Fuera Barrik gold y los demas abusos de estos paises explotadores!!!!

  11. arellano9401 says:

    y nosotros queriendo irnos para alla viendo que los hp se hacen ricos con lo nuestro viendo que norte america esa mierda alla no queda nada eso ya es un desierto latinos vengan aluchar por la naturaleza nuestra.

  12. CANDY10ENERO says:

    no fue Bachelet, fue Frei quien firmó la aprobacion de este projecto

  13. supertomasa says:

    fucking bachelet and all the guvernment of chile.
    They are thieves no more than that fuck off the chilean president

  14. MohammadX101 says:

    it’s not the man’s love for the metal itself, but rather the hate for the paper money. that’s why fake gold doesn’t work despite being just as shiny and heavy as the real gold jewelery.

  15. nickbsas says:

    soy argentino. pascua lama es un proyecto binacional. Soy de la provincia de san juan y hace rato estan censurando cada documental o articulo sobre la contaminacion de la mineria a cielo abierto y su enorme impacto ambiental. Internet en lo unico que nuestros gobernantes no pueden censurar. Hermanos Chilenos unamos fuerzas y defendamos lo que es nuestro.

    Afuera Barrik gold

  16. jeraldmcginnis says:

    Nice work. keep it up. mean time come for social media marketing for esteembpo**com FHFHF

  17. kronoskalifa says:

    Y quien diablos detendrá esto?. Los gobiernos de Chile y Argentina deberían ponerse los pantalones de una vez por todas y no permitir lo que todos sabemos que es dañino.

  18. 1beastofblood1 says:

    a veces siento verguenza de ser chileno

  19. davinci777 says:

    ojo que la empresa es canadiense

  20. camilobew says:

    como nos pasan por el orto estos gringos hijos de puta

    recuerden que todo se devuelve en la vida mal nacidos

  21. kuorerock says:

    that is incredible, how barrick came here (Chile) and in just a year or less, get total control over thousands of chilean areas in the vallenar and huasco’s valley territory.
    Peter Munk, chair of barrick came here in a rush and got a meeting with our president “michelle “vendida” Bachellet”, after that meeting, every rule, regulaiton, concerning enviromental care was passing away, and now the proyect is already approve.

  22. kuorerock says:

    i have a deeply felling of telling fu%$%#$ you to those person behind barrick gold, there are just a few ones, the “patrones de fundo”, but oue president is also a big responsable to give barrick complete access to our lands.

  23. euroamerica1 says:

    i am british citizen but i can not stop feeling as the yanks steal gold from your country. the gold is chilean. god, damn thieves. in the name of jesus come on people! open your eyes please

  24. Scorpiusgrl says:

    I can’t believe that in my own country, the government is letting this happen, it’s unbelievable. Letting another foreign country take over our rich sources. how ignorant is that, or maybe their is big bucks involved. Anyways, now a days people only care about money power, so there must be money involved in this, and unfortunalety this people that have power in my country don’t give a damn about their own country, they only think of their ambitions.

  25. LordApocalypsys says:

    emmmm te invito a q averigues cuanto durarian los recursos en el mundo si consumieramos a la velocidad de estados unidos

    un ejemplo
    la plata tiene como de 10 a 9 años si lo consumieramos a la velocidad de USA… solo duraria 4 años

    y si ves bien… la empresa barrick gold… es de los bush

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