Bullion is now 18% higher for the year, boosted by anticipation of Fed loosening as well as significant buying by central banks.
Barrick Gold's second-quarter gold output edged up by almost 0.9% from the previous three months.
The company's Flat gold project is located 40 km north of the giant Donlin gold project.
There are some 10,000 mining claims in Grassy Narrows’s interim area of interest for over more than 2,850 sq. km in the province’s far northwest.