New York futures for gold, copper tumble on WSJ tariff report
Premiums for gold traded on the US-based Comex over the London spot market halved following the news report, to around $20 an ounce.
Tanzanian President Samia Suluhu Hassan and Barrick Gold Corp top boss Mark Bristow met on Wednesday to review progress at the Canadian miner’s operations in the African country, a meeting that Bristow called “highly constructive”.
Barrick oversees the management of its assets in Tanzania through Twiga Minerals Corp, a joint venture formed in 2019 between the company and the government of Tanzania following a deal to settle a long-running tax dispute between the parties.
Twiga Minerals manages the Bulyanhulu, North Mara and Buzwagi mines in Tanzania.
“We see the potential for more world-class gold discoveries here, but in order to achieve exploration success, we need to keep turning over our licences and assessing new ground,” Bristow said in a statement.
The process of acquiring new licences is ongoing, he said.
In 2020, the government received more than $370 million in cash inflows from the Twiga partnership through taxes and dividends, the company said.
(By Rithika Krishna; Editing by Devika Syamnath)
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