In re Barrick Gold Corp.

NAOMI REICE BUCHWALD, UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE

This action is not an environmental regulatory proceeding or an environmental tort suit. Rather, it is a federal securities class action filed on behalf of all persons and entities that purchased or otherwise acquired shares of the common stock of defendant Barrick Gold Corp. in the United States or on a U.S.-based stock exchange between February 16, 2017, and April 24, 2017, inclusive (the "Class Period"). Plaintiffs1 allege that Barrick and four individual defendants, Kelvin Dushnisky, Catherine Raw, Richard Williams, and Jorge Palmes,…