Barrick says Argentina mine may resume within two weeks – by Nicole Mordant(Reuters U.S. – September 19, 2016)

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DENVER – Barrick Gold’s Veladero gold mine in Argentina, one of its five core mines, could resume operations in the next two weeks, Barrick President Kelvin Dushnisky said in an interview on Monday.

“I am hopeful that it could be up and going in that kind of two-week window depending on how the reparation work goes,” Dushnisky said.

Barrick Gold said on Thursday that mine operations were temporarily suspended by the government after a “small quantity” of processing solution containing cyanide leaked outside a processing area.

This is the second cyanide spill in just over a year at Veladero. Barrick was fined nearly $10 million by authorities in the Argentinian province of San Juan for last year’s leak, which was caused by a defective valve.

In the most recent leak, the solution flowed over a berm, or raised bank, surrounding the leach pad where gold is processed, after a pipe was damaged on Sept. 8 by a large block of ice that rolled down a valley slope.

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