Just two weeks after the fatal shooting of seven people at one of its Tanzanian gold mines, Barrick Gold...is investigating allegations of sexual assault by about a dozen police and security guards at the same violence-plagued mine...[I]nvestigators have interviewed about 10 women who allege that they were arrested at the mine site and sexually assaulted by company security guards or Tanzanian police over the past several years...In most or all of the cases, the women told the investigators that they were taken to holding cells and coerced into sex by police and security guards, who threatened them with imprisonment if they refused...In...Papua New Guinea, where Barrick owns 95 per cent of the Porgera gold mine, a report by Human Rights Watch this year concluded that the mine’s private security force is implicated in “a pattern of violent abuses, including horrifying acts of gang rape.” [Also refers to African Barrick Gold]