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Veladero

The Veladero mine is located in the San Juan Province of Argentina, immediately to the south of the Pascua-Lama property in the highly prospective Frontera District. The property is located at elevations of 4,000 and 4,850 metres above sea level, approximately 374 kilometres northwest of the city of San Juan.

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Veladero is a conventional open-pit operation where ore is crushed by a two-stage crushing process and transported via overland conveyor and trucks to the leach pad area. Run-of-mine ore is trucked directly to the valley-fill leach pad.

In 2010, Veladero produced 1.12 million ounces of gold at total cash costs of $256 per ounce¹. Proven and probable mineral reserves as of December 31, 2010 was 11.3 million ounces of gold².

Read more about Veladero in Barrick's responsible mining magazine Beyond Borders.

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1. Click here for more information regarding the calculation of total cash costs.
2. Click here for more information regarding reserve and resource measurements.