Understand where mining companies operate and the political, regulatory, security, and sovereign risks surrounding their assets.
Jurisdiction risk describes where a miner's operations and reserves are exposed. It is separate from Grey Rabbit's valuation methodology and does not automatically imply a valuation adjustment.
Structural jurisdiction risk — longer-term country classification from reviewed evidence.
Current event pressure — near-term monitored developments. Headlines do not automatically rewrite structural ratings.
Barrick Mining Corporation has meaningful exposure to both lower-risk jurisdictions and higher-risk jurisdictions including Democratic Republic of the Congo and Papua New Guinea and Mali.
Countries of operation
11
Producing assets
17
Development assets
3
Company jurisdiction score
73 / 100 · Low risk · weighted by PRODUCTION
Weighted from numeric scores only
Production exposure by jurisdiction
Based on attributable gold production for 12 of 20 assets in this dataset (not necessarily 100% of company-reported production)
Reserve exposure by jurisdiction
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Asset coverage: 12/20 with attributable production · 7/20 with attributable reserves · Last source date: 2026-08-10
Jurisdiction breakdown
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Mine / project details
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Current risk developments
Monitored factual events with source tier + corroboration — not AI headline sentiment. Structural ratings do not change automatically from these cards.
MLHighactive
Mali mining code / royalty framework revisions
Mali has revised mining-code and fiscal terms affecting industrial gold producers, elevating royalty and contract-renegotiation risk for operating mines including Loulo-Gounkoto.
Published: 2024-01-15 · Affected: GOLD
MLSevereactive
Sahel security environment remains severe
Ongoing armed conflict and security deterioration across the Sahel continue to elevate operational and personnel risk for mines in Mali.
Published: 2025-11-01 · Affected: GOLD
PGHighmonitoring
Porgera ownership / restart framework
Porgera restarted mining/processing in early 2024 under a 24.5% Barrick / 23.5% economic-benefit framework. Ownership restructuring remains a structural PNG resource-nationalism illustration — not a care-and-maintenance status.
Published: 2025-02-12 · Affected: GOLD
ARElevatedmonitoring
Argentina FX / capital-control history
Argentina’s history of FX restrictions and capital controls elevates fiscal repatriation risk for mining cash flows, even when mines operate normally.
Published: 2025-06-01 · Affected: GOLD
CDHighactive
DRC mining fiscal pressure
Fiscal and royalty pressure on industrial mining in the DRC remains a recurring theme for operators, contributing to elevated/high jurisdiction classification.
Published: 2025-03-01 · Affected: GOLD
Recent jurisdiction changes
Approved structural rating history only — never invented.
No approved structural risk changes yet.
Methodology & limitations
· Structural risk and current event pressure are separate.
· Events may create review proposals; they never silently rewrite structural ratings.
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