Mali Aims to Arrest Barrick CEO Whose Mines Made It Billions
- Mali has issued arrest warrant for Bristow amid tax dispute
- Barrick’s Loulo-Gounkoto mine is a high quality gold asset
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Mark Bristow has spent three decades navigating civil wars and coups to build some of Africa’s richest gold mines, but now Barrick Gold Corp.’s boss is being strong-armed by a Mali junta desperate for cash.
That hasn’t always been the case. When mutinying soldiers overthrew Mali’s government in 2012, the putsch leader closed the border to everyone except employees of Bristow’s Randgold Resources Ltd., which was issued with permits to fly bullion out of the West African country.