Pascua Lama

Pascua-Lama is an open pit mining project of gold, silver, copper and other minerals. Pascua Lama is located in the , in the southern reaches of , straddling the border between and northwest at an altitude of over 4,500 m Toronto-based Barrick Gold, the world's largest gold mining company, holds rights to the project.
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Antonio Gritta, CC BY-SA 3.0.
  • Industry
  • …lies at an elevation of 4,900 metres (16,076 feet)
  • …is also known as “Mina Pascua Lama”
  • …is operated by Compañía Minera Nevada SpA
  • Description: mine in Chile

Pascua Lama

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Latitude
-29.2974° or 29° 17′ 51″ south
Longitude
-70.04056° or 70° 2′ 26″ west
Open location code
572FPX35+2Q
Open­Street­Map ID
way 1229279229
Open­Street­Map feature
landuse=­industrial
Geo­Names ID
6324647
Wiki­data 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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