Numerous Chinese-owned companies have been forced by the ARSP to change their sub-contractors and so much to the irritation of its CEO Mark Bristow has Kibali a huge gold mine operated by Canada's Barrick Gold in the country's north-east...

The chief executives of Glencore and Barrick – Ivan Glasenberg and Mark Bristow – met Tshisekedi and his chief of staff Vital Kamerhe in Kinshasa to try to push for changes to the mining code...

It seemed like a defining moment when Mark Bristow the new chief executive officer of Barrick Gold was asked at the African Mining Indaba in Cape Town last month how much of the controversial Acacia Mining gold project he would be prepared to cede to the Tanzanian government...

Shocked and angry mining executives including Glencore's Ivan Glasenberg and Randgold's Mark Bristow descended on Kinshasa in March in a last-ditch attempt to stop the law...

' Mark Bristow CEO of Randgold said: 'We've invested $3 billion over eight years built three hydropower plants and employed 5 000 people and you're going to say "we'll start a bush fire and stand back and see what it does to the jungle"...

He also has official positions in several mining companies including Ity Gold and is close to Randgold Resources’ Chief Executive Officer Mark Bristow...