Barrick Gold Inc. was penalized for repeatedly discharging toxic mine waste into a stream that feeds the Similkameen River.

Barrick Gold Inc. has been handed a $114,750 fine after it was determined by provincial inspectors that the company had ...

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Barrick Gold has been hit with a fine of $114,750 for exceeding the amount of cobalt in the effluent from its decommissioned Nickel Plate gold mine outside Hedley, B.C. The administrative penalty is ...

which flows into the Similkameen River. This occurred on 17 separate occasions between 2021 and 2023, the inspectors found. Cobalt — while essential to human and animal life — can be harmful ...

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which flows into the Similkameen River. The underground and later open-pit gold mine operated from 1987 to 1996, and has since been in active care and maintenance. Provincial inspectors found mine ...

On 17 days spanning 2021 to 2023, Barrick Gold Inc. was found to have discharged mine effluent from its Nickel Plate Mine 32 kilometres west of Penticton, B.C., into Hedley Creek, which flows into the ...