ABX.TO · 2020-04-17 12:00:00

Barrick 2020 Annual Meeting Will be Virtual-Only

Shareholder Meetings

PRESS RELEASE

NYSE : GOLD TSX : ABX

Toronto, April 17, 2020 – As detailed in our 2020 Information Circular, in response to the global

Covid-19 pandemic Barrick Gold Corporation (NYSE:GOLD) (TSX:ABX) will be holding its 2020

Annual Meeting in a virtual-only format via a live webcast. The decision to conduct a virtual-only

Meeting was made with the health and safety of Barrick’s shareholders, employees, and the

broader community in mind.

As a Company of Owners, Barrick places significant importance on in- person engagement with

its shareholders and, with this in mind, we monitored conditions following the publication of our

Circular to determine if it was feasible to add a physical meeting component to the Meeting. While

an in-person meeting is not possible this year due to Covid-19, Barrick intends to return to a hybrid

meeting format (physical/virtual) for its 2021 Annual Meeting.

Having held hybrid meetings for the last several years, Barrick is well -positioned to leverage our

prior experience using a virtual meeting platform and easily move our entire meeting to a virtual

format for this year. At the virtual meeting, registered shareholders, non-registered (or beneficial)

shareholders and their duly appointed proxyholders will be able to participate, ask questions, and

vote in real-time through an online portal. Non -registered shareholders must carefully follow the

procedures set out in the Circular in order to vote virtually and ask questions through the live

webcast. Non-registered shareholders who do not follow the procedures set out in the Circular

will nonetheless be able to view a live webcast of the meeting, but will not be able to ask questions

or vote.

Barrick’s virtual 2020 Annual Meeting will be held on May 5, 2020 at 10:00 am EDT / 14:00 UTC

at https://web.lumiagm.com/171710479.

Please visit our website at www.barrick.com/investors/agm to download a copy of the 2020

Information Circular, explore our innovative Digital Circular, and view a live webcast of the Annual

Meeting on May 5.

Enquiries:

President and chief executive

Mark Bristow

+1 647 205 7694

+44 788 071 1386

SEVP and Chief Financial Officer

Graham Shuttleworth

+1 647 262 2095

+44 779 771 1338

Investor and media relations

Kathy du Plessis

+44 20 7557 7738

Website: www.barrick.com