Barrick Gold: Strong Balance Sheet, Complex Future – Focus on Costs and Strategic Restructuring
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Record numbers meet cost pressure: Despite a tripled free cash flow and strong operating results in 2025, stagnating production forecasts and rising all-in sustaining costs (AISC) dampen market sentiment. Strategic restructuring against political risks: Barrick is focusing on copper expansion and the $42 billion IPO of its North American assets to hedge against resource nationalism and transform into a multi-metal corporation. Barrick Gold is currently in a remarkable yet complex position. At first glance, the second-largest gold producer...
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