Gericht stoppt Goldabbau unter Gletschern

© Reuters/STRINGER/CHILEA view of the El Toro II glacier on the Chilean side of the border district between Chile’s Huasco province and Argentina’s San Juan province, a few kilometers from the site of the Pascua Lama gold project, some 834 km (518 miles) northeast of Santiago, Chile, February 28, 2007. The peaks of the Andes mountains at Pascua Lama are desolate at more than 5,000 meters, especially in the summer when only scattered icefields decorate otherwise barren slopes of dull red, grey and yellow. But under the ground at this spot between Chile and Argentina there is a treasure trove of at least 17 million ounces of gold that at today's prices would have a value of some $11 billion. Picture taken February 28, 2007. REUTERS/Pav Jordan (CHILE)