Mali Court Rejects Appeal to Release Four Barrick Staff

A court in Mali rejected an appeal for the conditional release of four Barrick Mining Corp. employees detained since November.

Its refusal comes as Mali’s ruling junta placed Barrick’s Loulo-Gounkoto complex under state control for six months. The junta earlier this month seized about a ton of gold from the biggest gold mine in Africa potentially for sale by the provisional administration to finance operations at the mine.