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Combination with Freeport had a lot of logic - Barrick CEO

Mark Bristow

Mark Bristow

1st March 2021

By: Reuters

  

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Barrick Gold CEO Mark Bristow said on Monday that a combination with copper miner Freeport McMoRan "had a lot of logic to it" even though a deal between the companies did not pan out.

Freeport CEO Richard Adkerson told Reuters on Thursday he has no desire to combine Freeport with Barrick or another gold producer.

"That's Richard's position and I respect that," Bristow said during a webcast at the BMO Capital Markets Metals and Mines conference. "It didn't work out, but it certainly had a lot of logic to it."

Bristow said there is a growing role for copper in Barrick's portfolio but his first priority is to expand assets the Toronto-based miner already owns.

He expressed interest in Freeport last year, but rising copper prices have pushed up the US miner's relative stock market valuation.

Bristow said last month that Barrick had successfully turned around its Lumwana copper mine in Zambia and could be interested in buying a smelter.

Edited by Reuters

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