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Exploration Expense | 12 Months Ended
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Dec. 31, 2020
ExplorationExpensesDisclosureAbstract [Abstract] |
Exploration Expense |
|  |  |  | UNITED STATES DOLLAR |
|  |  |  | 2020 |  |  | 2019 |  |  | 2018 |
6. |  | EXPLORATION EXPENSE |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
|  | Australia |  |  | (16.9 | ) |  |  | (30.0 | ) |  |  | (37.7 | )
|  | Ghana |  |  | — |  |  |  | — |  |  |  | (0.4 | )
|  | Peru |  |  | (1.4 | ) |  |  | (4.4 | ) |  |  | (1.1 | )
|  | Chile |  |  | (30.1 | ) |  |  | (49.1 | ) |  |  | (61.5 | )
|  | Other |  |  | (1.3 | ) |  |  | (0.9 | ) |  |  | (3.5 | )
|  | Total exploration expense |  |  | (49.7 | ) |  |  | (84.4 | ) |  |  | (104.2 | )

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