Barrick Gold (ABX) Stock Declines Today Following Chilean Supreme Court Ruling

NEW YORK (TheStreet) -- Barrick Gold shares are down 2.33% to $10.50 in early market trading on Friday after the gold exploration and mining company announced that Chile's Supreme Court declined to hear its appeal of a lower court ruling concerning fines levied against its Pascua-Lama project. Barrick Gold was fined $16 million by the Chilean government's environmental protection agency SMA in May 2013 for not complying with regulations at its Pascua-Lama mine. The company halted development of...