BBC: Chilean authorities have fined the world's largest gold mining company, Barrick Gold Corp, more than $16m for environmental offences.
Construction at the Pascua-Lama mine, on the border with Argentina, has been suspended until a system to contain contaminated water is put in place.
The news led to share trading in the Canadian-owned company being halted in New York and Toronto after a sell-off.
But activists complained that the fine was only 0.1% of the total operation.
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Barrick Gold fined for Chile project
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on May 24th, 2013
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