RE: Superb journalist - about time20 Dec 2024 19:52
A bit one sided to say the least.
Mali is using 2023 mining code retrospectively. put it this way , up untill last year we were told that kod licence fell under 2019 code then kod was pressured to accept the 2023 code.
Glad to see barric using its power and size to challenge the malian junta. one thing i am certain off is that if Kodal was an American owned company , Mali gov would not even think about exerting any form of pressure.
Article says nothing about the billions invested in Mali by investors creating millions of jobs.
Indeeed if Malians were clever enough and had the know haw they would just extract the gold and lithium spod themselfs and not wait for westernerss or chinese companies to do it so that junta can come along and say sorry guys but we must have 35% of the pie as its on my land and I did not have to tell you from the start as you would not have commited.
Lets see what the arbitrage will say in Barricks case .......