Metallic mining · EIA
Pascua-Lama
Compañía Minera Nevada SpA — Alto del Carmen · Atacama
Approval
May 9, 2001
RCA 39/2001 · Aprobado
Site
Barrick - Pascua Lama
3 environmental approvals at this site
File
- Instrument
- Environmental impact study (EIA)
- Project type
- Minera metálica
- Company
- Compañía Minera Nevada SpA
- Comunas
- Alto del Carmen · Atacama
- Assessed in
- Región de Atacama
- Coordinates
- -29.2826, -70.0630
- Site in the register: Pascua-Lama
Timeline
- May 9, 2001Environmental approval (EIA)
Enforcement at the site
- Inspections9 · latest in 2026
- Sanction proceedings2 · latest in 2015
- Provisional measures2 · latest in 2018
These cover the whole site, not this project alone.
Other approvals at Barrick - Pascua Lama
2 more approvals at the same supervised unit.
| Project | Approval | Declared investment | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| Centro Logistico Vallenar | 2006RCA 138/2006 | — | SMA |
| Modificaciones Proyecto Pascua Lama | Feb 23, 2006EIA · RCA 24/2006 | US$ 500 M | SMA |
Source: public registers of Chile's environmental regulator (SMA). Investment is the one the holder declared in the environmental assessment, in dollars of that year.