but barrick is a serious company with over 20bn market cap with a long history in Mali. FFX and LLL are joke in comparison. Also barrick has big coffees to pay the junta. With gold prices sky high even paying the junta means barrick gets good profits. On the other hand lithium prices are so low that if we pay the junta probably the whole operation becomes unprofitable. Barrick has executives in Mali on the other hand all out management are in Perth. I think the best we could hope for is that Gangfeng buys the whole thing and at least we can get something back.
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