Veladero mine

[1] The mine is located in the north-western part of Argentina in San Juan Province.

[1] The mine has estimated reserves of 10 million oz of gold.

[1] It is operated by Barrick Gold.The mine uses heap leach to extract gold and silver, which is a process that uses cyanide to dissolve the gold and mercury to extract it from the cyanide slurry.

In 2007, Barrick Gold installed the world's highest-altitude wind turbine at the Veladero mine at nearly 4,200m elevation.

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