The Veladero mine is a gold mine in Argentina.^[1] The mine is located in the north-western part of Argentina in San Juan Province.^[1] The mine has estimated reserves of 10 million oz of gold.^[1] It is operated by Barrick Gold.The mine uses heap leach to extract gold and silver, which is a process that uses cyanide to dissolve the gold and mercury to extract it from the cyanide slurry. This mine has had at least 5 catastrophic spills into the environment contaminating 5 rivers.

In 2007, Barrick Gold installed the world's highest-altitude wind turbine at the Veladero mine at nearly 4,200m elevation.^[2]