Pascua Lama
Pascua-Lama is an open pit mining project of gold, silver, copper and other minerals. Pascua Lama is located in the Andes mountains, in the southern reaches of Atacama Desert, straddling the border between Chile and northwest Argentina at an altitude of over 4,500 m Toronto-based Barrick Gold, the world's largest gold mining company, holds rights to the project.Photo: Antonio Gritta, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: Industry
- Description: mine in Chile
- Also known as: “Mina Pascua Lama”
Pascua Lama
- Category: mine
- Location: Alto del Carmen, Huasco Province, Atacama, Chile, South America
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Latitude
-29.2974° or 29° 17′ 51″ southLongitude
-70.04056° or 70° 2′ 26″ westElevation
4,900 metres (16,076 feet)Operator
Compañía Minera Nevada SpAOpen location code
572FPX35+2QOpenStreetMap ID
way 1229279229OpenStreetMap feature
landuse=industrialGeoNames ID
6324647Wikidata ID
Q1670813
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Ukrainian—“Pascua Lama” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “باسكوا لاما”
- Cebuano: “Pascua Lama”
- Chinese: “帕斯瓜拉瑪礦場”
- Dutch: “Pascua Lama”
- French: “Pascua Lama”
- German: “Bergbauprojekt Pascua-Lama”
- German: “Pascua-Lama”
- Italian: “Pascua-Lama”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Pascua Lama”
- Portuguese: “Pascua Lama”
- Russian: “Паскуа Лама”
- Spanish: “Pascua Lama”
- Swedish: “Pascua Lama”
- Ukrainian: “Паскуа-Лама-Веладеро”
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