Young Mining Professionals is expanding its reach across Canada with the founding of a Toronto chapter, and the Vancouver-based group has lined up a mining legend for the occasion. YMP Toronto will kick off with a Distinguished Speaker Event on Oct. 7, 2015 featuring Peter Munk, the founder and former chairman of Barrick Gold, the… Continue Reading
The Economist is out with a first class post on Barrick Gold founder Peter Munk. Munk’s tale How a former refugee from the Nazis made and lost several fortunes Apr 19th 2014 | From the print edition YOU can’t be right all the time. In a 1995 profile of Peter Munk, the founder of Barrick Gold,… Continue Reading
Eric Reguly, Europe Business Correspondent for the Globe and Mail, has an excellent new profile out on 87 year old Barrick Gold Co-Chairman Peter Munk, who is expected to step down from the world’s largest gold miner he co-founded next month. The transition to retirement could either save Munk’s life or kill him, Reguly writes. Apparently… Continue Reading
