Fiscal year covered by the statement: from January 1, 2025 to December 31, 2025.

Name of the entity filing the statement:

BARRICK MINING CORPORATION

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

BARRICK GOLD INC.

Certificate

I certify that I have examined the information concerning Barrick Mining Corporation and its subsidiary Barrick Gold Inc. contained in the statement of Barrick Mining 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, 2025 and ended on December 31, 2025. 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 Mining Corporation (formerly 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:

 

 

During 2025 we lost, and subsequently regained, control of the Loulo-Gounkoto mine under the following sequence of events. On June 16, 2025, the Bamako Commercial Tribunal placed Loulo-Gounkoto under temporary provisional administration. While Barrick retained its 80% legal ownership of the mining complex, control over operations transferred to an external administrator. Following this action by the Malian courts, we concluded that Barrick had lost control of the subsidiaries that hold our interest in Loulo-Gounkoto because we could not effectively exercise power over the relevant activities related to the mine, nor could we affect the returns of the mine through managerial involvement. On November 24, 2025, Barrick announced that an agreement had been entered into with the Government of the Republic of Mali to put an end to all disputes regarding the Loulo and Gounkoto mines. The provisional administration of the Loulo-Gounkoto complex was terminated on December 16, 2025, at which point operational control was handed back to Loulo-Gounkoto’s management. In this report we have included payments made by Loulo-Gounkoto during the period in which we controlled it, as well as payments made by other Barrick controlled entities in relation to Loulo-Gounkoto during the period in which we did not control it.

On August 8, 2025, Barrick reached an agreement to sell the Alturas Project in Chile to a subsidiary of Boroo Pte Ltd (Singapore). The transaction closed on November 7, 2025. Accordingly, in this report we have included the payments provided are up to the closing date.

On September 11, 2025, Barrick announced that it reached an agreement to sell the Hemlo Gold Mine (“Hemlo”) in Canada to Carcetti Capital Corp., which was renamed to Hemlo Mining Corp. (“HMC”). The transaction closed on November 26, 2025. Accordingly, in this report we have included the payments provided are up to the closing date.

On October 6, 2025, we reached an agreement to sell our interest in the Tongon gold mine and certain of its exploration properties to the Atlantic Group. The transaction closed on December 1, 2025. Accordingly, in this report we have included the payments provided are up to the closing date.

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

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 2025 are as follows:

 

4 > PAYMENTS

Reportable payments made to governments are presented on a net cash basis for the year ended December 31, 2025.

Any payment, whether made as a single payment or a series of payments, below $71,570 (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.

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:

 

 

 

 

 

 

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, 2025.

 

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.

 

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, 2025.

 

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, 2025.

 

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, 2025, dividends were paid by Société des Mines Tongon (Tongon) to the State of Côte d’Ivoire on the 10% free-carried interest, dividends were paid 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, 2025.

 

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.