Claims of sexual abuses in Tanzania blow to Barrick Gold

NORTH MARA, TANZANIA— From Tuesday's Globe and Mail

Published Monday, May. 30, 2011 10:51PM EDT

Last updated Tuesday, May. 31, 2011 8:50PM ED

Just two weeks after the fatal shooting of seven people at one of its Tanzanian gold mines, Barrick Gold Corp. is investigating allegations of sexual assault by about a dozen police and security guards at the same violence-plagued mine.

The Toronto-based corporate giant, the world’s biggest gold miner, is already reeling from allegations of gang rape by its security guards at another of its subsidiaries, in Papua New Guinea....read more>>>>>