{"id":886,"date":"2012-12-16T03:10:32","date_gmt":"2012-12-16T08:10:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.juniorminingnews.com\/?p=886"},"modified":"2012-12-16T03:10:32","modified_gmt":"2012-12-16T08:10:32","slug":"barricks-clean-capitalism-mixed-results","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/?p=886","title":{"rendered":"Barrick&#8217;s clean capitalism: Mixed results"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Catherine Solyom<br \/>\n<\/strong><em>The Montreal Gazette<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.juniorminingnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/barrcap.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-888\" title=\"barrcap\" src=\"http:\/\/www.juniorminingnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/barrcap.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"160\" height=\"140\" \/><\/a>Houses for the homeless, wireless Internet for remote villages, new computers for the local school, kite-sailing competitions, a centre for the disabled.<\/p>\n<p>These are a few of the things Barrick Gold has helped finance during the last few years in communities living near its controversial Pascua-Lama mine, under construction in the Andes mountains on the Chile-Argentina border, as part of its commitment to corporate social responsibility (CSR), or as it is called in Spanish, \u201cmineria responsable.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>If these programs sound like they are beyond the normal purview of a Canadian gold mining giant, that\u2019s because they are. Barrick often works with local non-governmental organizations (NGOs) who are better acquainted with health and social problems in their own communities. The NGOs share their expertise; Barrick puts up the money.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s hard to be against CSR, now part of the playbook of most Canadian mining companies wherever they have set up shop around the world.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.montrealgazette.com\/business\/Clean+capitalism+gets+mixed+results\/7707128\/story.html\" target=\"_blank\">Read the full article . . .<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Houses for the homeless, wireless Internet for remote villages, new computers for the local school, kite-sailing competitions, a centre for the disabled. 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