A libel threat issued against a small Montreal publishing house by Barrick Gold Corp has delayed the launch of a book accusing the company of being complicit in the deaths of more than 50 Tanzanian miners in 1996. Barrick threatened a lawsuit...after learning that...the book - Canada Noir: Pillage, Corruption et Criminalité en Afrique - blames the company for an atrocity in which the miners were allegedly buried alive. Barrick spokesman Vince Borg said...that the publisher's summary...clearly blames Barrick for a highly questionable incident that took place three years prior to its purchase of the property..."This is not only about Barrick," [said Anne-Lise Gauthier of Écosociété, the book's publisher] "...It is about all of our mining companies in Africa. Most of them do very badly for the people of Africa, and their environment..."