Barrick is a Canadian company but London-based AXA Investment Managers UK Ltd had over $10 million invested in the company in 2007, BlackRock Commodities Income Trust plc has invested in the company, and the company also has connections with Millhouse Capital, controlled by London resident Roman Abramovich, and New City Investment Managers Ltd/NCIM (UK). (See From Money to Metals by Roger Moody, http://moneytometal.org/index.php/From_Money_to_Metals.)
The following is a protest letter written by a number of prominent NGOs objecting to the Export-Import Bank of the United States funding Barrick Gold’s Pascua Lama mine on the Chilean – Argentine border.
See http://www.minesandcommunities.org/article.php?a=10101