A bulldozer moves rubble as a villager searches for tiny flecks of gold contained in discarded waste rock from the North Mara mine in the district of Nyangoto, Tanzania, on Saturday, July 31, 2010. Barrick Gold Corp.'s North Mara mine near the Tanzanian border with Kenya disgorges millions of pounds of waste rock each week, piled high around communities where almost half the people live on less than 33 cents a day. Photographer: Bloomberg/Bloomberg Photo by Bloomberg / Bloomberg via Getty Images
Barrick Mining Corp. agreed to sell its gold mine in Africa’s Ivory Coast for as much as US$305 million, the latest in a string of asset sales by the global mining giant.
The purchase of the Tongon gold mine by the Atlantic Group will give Barrick US$192 million in cash, including a US$23 mil