Company
Barrick Gold Corporation

Cowal opens up New South Wales for Barrick

Although it is one of Barrick Gold Corp.'s smaller development projects, the Cowal gold mine is important to the company's production base in Australia. The project is located in cent...

Right on the money at Lagunas Norte

The hard work of a very dedicated team and US$340 million dollars are reshaping the Alto Chicama region with Peru's newest gold mine. Barrick's Lagunas Norte mine is coming into produ...

High hopes & hard work at Veladero

Everyone at the Veladero project is working flat-out preparing the mine and plant for production in the fourth quarter of this year. It helps to know that something good will come of the effort: there...

High altitude, higher hopes for Pascua-Lama

Project director Ron Kettles needs more than one word to sum up the Pascua-Lama project. "It's a world-class deposit at high altitude in a bi-national setting. And the mineralogy is unique."...

How to be a good neighbour in Latin America

When CMJ visited Barrick's new mine developments in Argentina and Peru last February, we saw first-hand how hard the company is working to create truly sustainable development for communities a...

Glamis, Guatemalans at odds over gold mine

Reno, Nevada-based Glamis Gold is building a mine in Guatemala, but local opposition is heating up. Judging from the company's press releases, the company has a very long way to go be...

Firing on all cylinders

When you're only number three, you've got to try harder. That seems to be a factor driving Toronto-based Barrick Gold Corp. to build up its annual gold production from the current 4.9...