Mali's Military-led Government Takes Control of Canada's Barrick Gold | Firstpost Africa | N18G Mali has taken over Barrick Gold’s biggest mining site in the country, claiming the company hasn’t paid what it owes.

The judge in the capital Bamako agreed to a government request that an interim board would be set up to run the Loulo-Gounkoto mine and allow operations to resume. Barrick closed the mine in January after Mali’s government, which owns a 20 per cent stake in the project, carted off gold from the mine to a custodial bank.