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Barrick ‘was almost dead’: Thornton pulls no punches on gold miner’s missteps
Barrick's plan going forward includes increasing its portfolio of so-called tier 1 assets over time, and gradually shedding anything that’s not tier 1 or deemed to be “strategic.”