Summary of Barrick Gold's Bad News:

BARRICK GOLD WILL REPORT THEIR FINANCES ON OCTOBER 26:

Summary of Barrick Gold’s Bad News:

> A very BIG drop in Barrick Gold’s sales on a year-to-year and sequential basis in the third quarter.

> To make matter worse, Barrick did not receive much support from better gold prices.

> The above will almost definitely pull DOWN Barrick’s earnings, and cash flows.

SHOULD THE WORLD BE SURPRISED?

Analysts say that things changed at Barrick when Chairman John Thornton was forced to get involved in Tanzania as Barrick’s daughter company, Acacia Mining, in which Barrick owns majority of 63.9%, slipped deeper and deeper into their own-made mud slide.

In July, Barrick Gold announced that it would start to pre-release the quarterly production numbers in order to increase transparency and strengthen disclosure. Apparently, this type of disclosure is a FIRST for Barrick Gold in all its years in business. Surprise surprise!

Barrick’s production report for the third quarter stated:
Production: 1.24 million ounces 
Sales : 1.23 million ounces

This means Barrick’s sales have fallen 12.2% from Quarter 2 in 2017 (sales then were just under than 1.4 million ounces. 
Also, Barrick’s sales fell 11.5% from Quarter 3 in 2016 (sales then were 1.39 million ounces).
Barrick Gold reported a drop in sales from all their operating units, including the crucial USA Barrick Nevada mine where sales dropped significantly.

Barrick Gold’s daughter company, Acacia Mining, continues to struggle with weak production and weak sales due to the dispute with our Tanzanian Government over tax evasion and fraud exports and other issues reported to President Magufuli by his two Committees earlier this year.

Barrick chairman, John Thornton came flying into Dar es Saalam thinking he can turn our President into one of his “victims” – but he did not realize that this is the NEW TANZANIA and our “Bulldozer” President is very wide awake and his care and love for Tanzania is the highest on all priority lists. Therefore, the situation remains until our President is ready to make changes.

For two years, our Anti-Corruption lobby has written to the bosses at Barrick Gold and also Acacia Mining to ask them to come personally to Tanzania to clean up all their mess here. It is undisputed that their local “Fix-It” people were making their company sink deeper and deeper into trouble. Of course, we are Black Tanzanians and since when do rich Whites take us Blacks seriously. After all, regardless of the double standards and hypocrisy they write on their websites and in their speeches, they think Tanzania is still a colony and that colonization is still alive here.

However, our President has proved that the NEW TANZANIA demands new systems and new methods and these mining giants are going to have TO SHAPE UP OR SHIP OUT!

We have written over and over again that our wish is that Acacia Mining will be successful in our country… IF they will pay their taxes, their export royalties and they will NOT allow rape, murder, destruction to our villages and properties and they will stop creating devastation in our environments.

Samantha Cole
Tanzania Business Ethics

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