South America: Pascua-Lama

Since 2014, SRK has worked on the closure of the Pascua-Lama gold project on the border of Chile and Argentina, owned by Barrick Gold. The pre-feasibility level closure plan was developed for the mine pit, rock dumps, water management system, road infrastructure and cut-off wall considering the geotechnical, geochemical, hydrological and seismic issues. SRK developed the detail design and QA/QC plan of key infrastructure components of the mine closure, such as the design of the plug in the bi-national tunnel connecting Argentina and Chile.