Barrick Gold Kills

Canadian company profiteering and killing around the world

LATE BREAKING NEWS: Thousands raid Barrick's North Mara mine, destroy $15 million in equipment
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TANZANIA: In what appears to be a civilian movement against Barrick Gold, the world's largest gold miner, thousands of people invaded Barrick`s North Mara Gold Mine this week in Tarime District and destroyed equipment worth $15 million. One villager, identified as Mang’weina Mwita Mang’weina, died in the confrontation. (Earlier, a subsidiary Barrick purchased buried miners alive.)

Photo: Sheila, child in photo at right, is one of 258 people moved at gunpoint, by machine guns, to make way for the Geita Gold Mine. Photo from Someone Else's Gold Exhibit

Killing of local boy at Barrick Gold Porgera mine creates crisis
PAPAU, NEW GUINEA: On the evening of July 22nd, Barrick security guards open fired on the local villages using high powered assault raffles, M16 and shot guns on the harmless villages. The reckless use of excessive force resulted in instant death of the late Gipson Umbi. In the last few weeks, three more locals have died under mysteries circumstances at the mine site.

WESTERN SHOSHONE: Barrick Gold is now destroying the region around Mount Tenabo, sacred mountain of the Western Shoshone
Barrick ripped the trees out by the roots and bulldzoned the region of the Western Shoshone's sacred Mount Tenabo in December. President Bush, Sr., cleared the way for Barrick to seize Nevada lands for gold mining before leaving office, then went to work for Barrick as a senior advisor. Photo Barrick destroying Mount Tenabo by Lisa Wolf.

Indigenous leaders expose Barrick's lies
Indigenous Leaders expose Barrick Gold's lies at a press conference after Barrick's Annual General Meeting in May of 2008.

“Your mine has destroyed our ancestral land, our sacred places, and our gardens, which we need to feed ourselves. You dump your mine waste directly into our river system contaminating 600 km of river all the way to the sea,” explained Jethro Tulin, Executive Officer of Akali Tange Association of Papau, New Guinea, in a speech aimed directly at Barrick's head Peter Munk.
He continued, “Your security guards have been shooting and killing our people and raping, even gang-raping, our women with impunity for years now… When will Barrick agree to move the more than 5,000 families who live within your mine lease in a way that is fair and will provide us an opportunity to be healthy, to feed our families, and to educate our children?”

PHOTO (From left to right) Larson R Bill (Community Planner, Western Shoshone Defence Project, USA), Anga Atalu (Secratary, Porgera Land Owners Association, Papua New Guinea), Jethro Tulin (Executive Director, Akali Tange Association, Papua New Guinea), Mark Ekepa (Chairman, Porgera Land Owners Association, Papua New Guinea) and Neville Chappy Williams (Mooka/Kalara United Families within the Wiradjuri Nation, Lake Cowal, Australia). Photo: Allan Cedillo Lissner