Dr Mark Bristow has snapped into fast action wearing the Barrick crown. His Randgold Resources, which now falls under the Barrick Gold umbrella, on Wednesday bowed out with panache when it declared a 35% dividend increase to $2.69 a share, buoyed by record production of 807 000 oz of gold at the Kibali mine, in the Democratic Republic of Congo, and record throughput at the Loulo-Gounkoto mine in Mali.
