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BULIANHULU, Tanzania, Oct. 05, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — The Twiga partnership between Barrick Gold Corporation (NYSE:)(TSX:ABX) and the Tanzanian government contributes 51% of government revenues from the extractive industry, according to the latest Extractive Industry Transparency Initiative report In Tanzania. Twiga includes the North Mara and Bulyanholo gold mines.
Both mines also led the industry’s safety performance, with Bulyanhulu winning the Occupational Safety and Health of the Year award and North Mara being named Best Company for the Care of Workers with Special Needs by the Tanzania Occupational Safety and Health Authority.
Speaking to media and local stakeholders here today, Barrick President and CEO Mark Bristow said ongoing brownfield exploration around the Bulyanhulu and North Mara mines continued to identify additional opportunities to replace and expand depleted reserves, further supporting mine resilience. In addition, good progress has been made in identifying new areas of interest with the potential to add new mines to the company’s portfolio.
Bristow said the Barrick-Twiga Future Forward Education initiative has completed its first phase, with Barrick funding a $10 million infrastructure expansion at 64 schools, including the construction of 396 classrooms, 97 dormitories and 600 ablution units. The second phase of the program is scheduled to begin in the last quarter of this year with another investment of $10 million, which will be followed by another third phase worth $10 million.
Meanwhile, the Barrick Academy, which was inaugurated by the Minister of Minerals at the beginning of the year at the closed Buzwagi mine, has trained more than 1,000 foremen, supervisors and supervisors from across the company’s Africa and Middle East region. The academy is on track to achieve its goal of training more than 2,000 people this year.
Bristow said that in line with Barrick’s commitment to transparency, it had referred the latest series of allegations of human rights violations at the North Mara mine to the Tanzania Human Rights and Good Governance Commission. After visiting the site and investigating, the committee completed a report confirming that there was no evidence of human rights violations and refuting allegations made by some international non-governmental organizations.
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