One man, Jorge Lope-handia, now a dual Canadian/Chilean citizen, claimed he, not Barrick, holds the deeds to the most valuable parts of the Pascua-Lama territory. Another Canadian mining company, Mountainstar Gold Inc., based in Vancouver, is financing Lopehandia's ongoing suit against the Chilean government in a Santiago court, asking it to "extinguish" the Pascua Protocol signed with Barrick in 1994.
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