Barrick Conferance call just ended and my oh my , to my great surprise they did not take one call from any outsiders only calls from analysts in the investment community and the questions were not that agressive. Sort of a don't ask a stupid or I will kick your hinny when I get out this meeting......
Pascua Lama is a world class project where forcast on production cost after the mine is built are relatively nil once you get over the initial build costs of around $7.5-8 BILLION!!!! production forcast of 850000 OZ per year over a 25 year mine life.
Barrick's relationships with both Chile as well as Argentina are exemplary and Barrick will reevaluate cost concerns with a new team?
Pascua will be our biggest producer and will open in 2014 you have my word in it this is our focus...from Barrick