{"id":112560,"date":"2018-05-15T13:08:29","date_gmt":"2018-05-15T17:08:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dr1.com\/new\/?p=112560"},"modified":"2018-05-15T13:08:29","modified_gmt":"2018-05-15T17:08:29","slug":"barrick-gold-going-green","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2018\/05\/15\/barrick-gold-going-green\/","title":{"rendered":"Barrick Gold going green"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_112513\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-112513\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-112513\" src=\"http:\/\/dr1.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Barrik-Gold-Mining-300x226.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"226\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-112513\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: Mining<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Barrick Gold is stepping up its \u201cgreen\u201d efforts by signing a 10-year natural gas supply contract in the Dominican Republic. This would mean a switch from heavy fuel oil to natural gas for the mining company that is located in central Cotu\u00ed.<\/p>\n<p>Costs at the mine are expected to drop by about US$54 per ounce over its operative life. The savings, according to Barrick, will be partly supported by higher margins on the sale of excess power to the national energy grid.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, the use of natural gas is expected to reduce greenhouse gas emissions associated with Pueblo Viejo by approximately 260,000 CO2 equivalent tons per year.<\/p>\n<p>It will cost roughly US$7.5 million to convert the Quisqueya I power plant to natural gas. AES will be in charge of setting up a new gas pipeline to the facility, with commercial gas production expected to begin in the second half of 2019.<\/p>\n<p>Read more:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mining.com\/barrick-signs-10-year-gas-supply-deal-make-dominican-mine-greener\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mining<\/a><\/p>\n<p>15 May 2018<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Barrick Gold is stepping up its \u201cgreen\u201d efforts by signing a 10-year natural gas supply contract in the Dominican Republic. This would mean a switch from heavy fuel oil to natural gas for the mining company that is located in central Cotu\u00ed. Costs at the mine are expected to drop by about US$54 per ounce &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2018\/05\/15\/barrick-gold-going-green\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[22,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112560"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=112560"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112560\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}