BARRICK GETS CLOSER TO SHANDONGBarrick Gold announced today it’s building on its existing relationship with China’s Shandong with the signing of an “enhanced strategic cooperation”, including a plan to work together more closely on takeover and asset sale opportunities. The companies first connected in April 2017, with Shandong picking up 50 per cent of Barrick’s Veladero mine and the two sides saying they’d consider jointly developing Pascua-Lama. Commodities will chase Barrick.