BARRY FITZGERALD

Barrick buys the Bristow way

IT is a rare thing indeed for the junior party in a US$19.8 billion mining merger to be calling the shots going forward, writes <b>Barry FitzGerald</b>.

Barry FitzGerald
Mark Bristow

Mark Bristow

But that is exactly what is happening in the nil-premium merger between the $6.8 billion Randgold and $13 billion Barrick. And that all comes down to Mark Bristow, the 59 year-old South African geologist...

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