Barrick Sees Up to $3 Billion in Impairments on Lower Gold
- Preliminary analysis shows $1.8 billion in goodwill charges
- World's No. 1 gold miner lowered price assumption to $1,000/oz
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Barrick Gold Corp., the world’s largest producer of the metal, said it may book as much as $3 billion in impairment charges as a prolonged gold slump forces it to revise its price assumptions for 2016.
A preliminary review shows potential goodwill impairment charges of about $1.8 billion, and asset impairment charges in the range of $1 billion to $1.2 billion, the Toronto-based company said Thursday in a statement. The asset impairments are primarily related to the stalled Pascua-Lama project on the Chile-Argentina border and the Pueblo Viejo mine in the Dominican Republic.