GOLD Barrick Gold Corporation

UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

FORM SD

SPECIALIZED DISCLOSURE REPORT

Barrick Gold Corporation

(Exact name of the registrant as specified in its charter)

Joseph Heckendorn

775-397-5681

(Name and telephone number, including area code, of the

person to contact in connection with this report.)

Check the appropriate box to indicate the rule pursuant to which this form is being filed, and provide the period to which the information in this form applies:

☐ Rule 13p-1 under the Securities Exchange Act (17 CFR 240.13p-1) for the reporting period from January 1 to December 31, 2023

☒ Rule 13q-1 under the Securities Exchange Act (17 CFR 240.13q-1) for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2023

Section 2 - Resource Extraction Issuer Disclosure

Item 2.01 Resource Extraction Issuer Disclosure and Report

This Form SD of Barrick Gold Corporation. (the “Company”) is filed pursuant to the alternative reporting provision, Rule 13q-1(c) promulgated under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. The Company’s annual resource extraction report for the year ended December 31, 2023 (the “Annual Report”), which contains the payment disclosure required by Form SD, was prepared in compliance with Canada’s Extractive Sector Transparency Measures Act. A copy of the Annual Report is filed as Exhibit 2.01 hereto and is publicly available at www.sedarplus.ca.

The following exhibit is filed as part of this report.

Section 3 - Exhibits

Item 3.01 - Exhibits

SIGNATURES

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the duly authorized undersigned.

Barrick Gold Corporation

Exhibit 99.1

SUBSTITUTION STATEMENT CERTIFICATE

Fiscal year covered by the statement: from January 1, 2023 to December 31, 2023.

Name of the entity filing the statement:

BARRICK GOLD CORPORATION

Names of the subsidiaries for which the entity files the statement:

BARRICK GOLD INC.

ARGENTINA GOLD CORP.

Certificate

I certify that I have examined the information concerning Barrick Gold Corporation and its subsidiaries Barrick Gold Inc. Argentina Gold Corp. contained in the statement of Barrick Gold Corporation filed pursuant to the Extractive Sector Measures Transparency Act (S.C 2014, c.39. s. 376) for the fiscal year that began on January 1, 2023 and ended on December 31, 2023. To my knowledge and having exercised due diligence, the information contained in the statement is, in all material respects for the purposes of the Act, true, accurate and complete.

BASIS OF REPORT PREPARATION

This report was prepared in accordance with the Extractive Sector Transparency Measures Act (“ESTMA” or the “Act”) issued by the Government of Canada. The information in this report was prepared by Barrick Gold Corporation (“Barrick”) for the sole purpose of complying with Barrick’s obligations under the ESTMA. The information contained in this report is provided solely for the benefit of Natural Resources Canada (“NRCan”) and in connection with Barrick’s obligations under the ESTMA. This report may not be used or relied upon by any other person or for any other purpose without Barrick’s express prior written consent.

1 > PROJECTS

According to the Technical Reporting Specifications issued by NRCan, a project is the operational activities that are governed by a single contract, license, lease, concession or similar legal agreement and form the basis for payment liabilities with a government. If multiple agreements are “substantially interconnected”, they are considered a single project. “Substantially interconnected” means forming a set of operationally and geographically integrated contracts, licenses, leases or concessions or related agreements with substantially similar terms that are signed with a government and give rise to payment liabilities.

This report includes payments made that are reportable under ESTMA for all of Barrick’s controlled projects, regardless of Barrick’s ownership interest. In accordance with the Act, this report does not include payments made by projects that Barrick does not control, except if payments were made by a Barrick controlled entity in relation to the project. Projects that Barrick has an economic interest in but are not controlled by Barrick consist of the following:

¹ Donlin Gold LLC is a non-reporting U.S. entity. Its shares are owned 50/50 by Barrick Gold Corporation and NovaGold Resources Inc. (“NovaGold”). Neither Barrick nor NovaGold control Donlin Gold LLC. In accordance with the additional guidance provided by NRCan in August 2017 and April 2018, NovaGold has included 100% of payments made by Donlin Gold LLC to enhance transparency.

² On December 22, 2023, we completed the Porgera Project Commencement Agreement, pursuant to which the Papua New Guinea (“PNG”) government and Barrick Niugini Limited (“BNL”), the 95% owner and operator of the Porgera joint venture, agreed on a partnership for the future ownership and operation of the mine. Ownership of Porgera is now held in a new joint venture owned 51% by PNG stakeholders and 49% by a Barrick affiliate, Porgera (Jersey) Limited (“PJL”). PJL is jointly owned on a 50/50 basis by Barrick and Zijin Mining Group and therefore Barrick now holds a 24.5% ownership interest in the Porgera joint venture. Barrick holds a 23.5% interest in the economic benefits of the mine under the economic benefit sharing arrangement agreed with the PNG government whereby Barrick and Zijin Mining Group together share 47% of the overall economic benefits derived from the mine accumulated over time, and the PNG stakeholders share the remaining 53%.

On December 15, 2022, Barrick completed the reconstitution of the Reko Diq project in Pakistan’s Balochistan province. The reconstituted project is held 50% by Barrick and 50% by Pakistani stakeholders, comprising a 10% free-carried, non-contributing share held by the Provincial Government of Balochistan, an additional 15% held by a special purpose company owned by the Provincial Government of Balochistan and 25% owned by other federal state-owned enterprises. Barrick is the operator of the project. Barrick began consolidating Reko Diq as at December 31, 2022.

Non-significant projects, in which insignificant payments to governments were made, have been grouped together and presented as exploration sites, closed sites, or projects.

Non-project specific payments relate to payments made for the commercial development of minerals that have been calculated and paid on a consolidated basis and are difficult to split or disaggregate to a specific project.

2 > GOVERNMENTS

Government is defined as:

(a) any government in Canada or in a foreign state

(b) a body that is established by two or more governments

(c) any trust, board, commission, corporation or body or authority that is established to exercise or perform, or that exercises or performs, a power, duty or function of government for a government referred to in paragraph (a) or a body referred to in paragraph (b).

3 > REPORTING CURRENCY

Reportable payments to governments have been disclosed in United States (“US”) dollars, unless otherwise shown. This is consistent with Barrick’s functional currency for consolidated accounting purposes. Payments denominated in currencies other than US dollars were translated using the exchange rate at the time the payment was made. The average exchange rates for 2023 are as follows:

4 > PAYMENTS

Reportable payments made to governments are presented on a net cash basis for the year ended December 31, 2023.

Any payment, whether made as a single payment or a series of payments, below $74,100 (CAD $100,000 threshold as set out under the Act converted to USD using the full year average exchange rate) in a given category to a particular government was not reported.

Reportable payments have been rounded to the nearest $10,000 but rounding was not to be used for determining the threshold for what to include as a reportable payment.

A) Taxes

This category consists of taxes paid to governments based on income, profit or production in relation to the commercial development of minerals. The following are not included in total payments to governments:

B) Royalties

This category consists of royalties paid to governments relating to the commercial development of minerals. No royalties paid in kind have been made to governments for the year ended December 31, 2023.

C) Fees

This category consists of fees paid to governments relating to the commercial development of minerals, such as permit and license fees. This does not include amounts paid in the ordinary course of commercial transactions in exchange for services provided by governments, such as utilities paid at market rates.

D) Production entitlements

This category includes payments made to governments relating to a share of production under production sharing agreements. There were no production entitlements payments made to governments for the year ended December 31, 2023.

E) Bonuses

This category includes signing, discovery, production and any other type of bonuses paid to governments. There were no bonus payments made to governments for the year ended December 31, 2023.

F) Dividends

This category consists of dividends paid to governments on shares given in lieu of a bonus, production entitlements, royalties or other fees. This does not include dividends paid to governments as an ordinary shareholder. For the year ended December 31, 2023, dividends were paid by Société des Mines Tongon (Tongon) to the State of Côte d’Ivoire on the 10% free-carried interest, by Société des Mines de Gounkoto SA (Gounkoto) and Société des Mines de Loulo SA (Somilo) to the State of Mali based on the State of Mali’s shareholding pursuant to the Establishment Convention under which Gounkoto operates and by North Mara Gold Mine Limited (North Mara) to the Tanzanian Federal Government on the 16% free-carried interest. There were no dividends paid to governments on shares in lieu of a bonus, production entitlements, royalties or other fees for the year ended December 31, 2023.

G) Infrastructure improvement payments

This category consists of payments made to governments for the construction of public infrastructure, such as roads, schools and hospitals that directly relate to the commercial development of minerals. This does not include infrastructure improvement payments that relate primarily to the operational purposes of Barrick. Payments are reported in the period in which the payment was made.