Replies to post #1568 on Barrick Gold Corp (ABX)

[JohnCM]

Mina Pascua Mining Claims

On May 20, 2011, the company entered into an agreement (the “Option Agreement”) with Mr. Jorge Lopehandia, pursuant to which the company granted the right to acquire an option (the “Option”) to purchase a 50% interest in the Mina Pascua Property.

The Option price is 2,000 troy ounces of gold, payable as follows:

(a) US$925,589, which amount has been paid;

(b) a further $1,000,000 which has also been paid

(c) the balance of the purchase price to be paid, amongst other things, when Mr. Lopehandia has confirmed registration of the Option Agreement against the mining claims.

If Mr. Lopehandia fails to provide clear title, then all funds provided by us are to be repaid. If the company fails to exercise the Option, then all amounts paid to Mr. Lopehandia become non-refundable.

The Mina Pascua Property includes some Chilean mining claims that Mr. Lopehandia recently acquired.

Mr. Lopehandia claims these mining claims cover a portion of Mina Pascua, the Chilean portion of the mining deposit commonly called the Pascua Lama deposit, which lies in both Chile and Argentina.

Mr. Lopehandia is in a legal dispute with Barrick Gold Corporation, who currently claims to own the Pascua Lama deposit and thus the Mina Pascua Property.

[JohnCM]

Barrick’s Lawyer Caught In Lie By Chilean Judge
NEWS RELEASE
April 10th, 2013

Mountainstar Gold Inc. (MSX) (the Company) updates shareholders and the investing public of the following developments in Chile. Mr. Juan Guillermo Torres Fuentealba, the Company’s Chilean lawyer, informs of recent proceedings in the courts as follows.

On April 5, 2013 in the 17th Civil Court of Santiago, Chile, case number E-304-2012, titled Minera Nevada SpA, the following resolution was established on the criminal charges against Barrick Gold Corporation’s (Minera Nevada SpA) Canadian / Chilean lawyer Laura Phyllis Maria Emery.

Emery had stated under oath that the company she represented, Minera Nevada SpA
Barrick/ABX), owned the Tesoros concessions, not the mining engineer Hector Undo Llanos, when she was deposed at the Fiscalia Centro Norte, Santiago, criminal court in early 2013. Minera Nevada SpA had testified under oath, in Vallenar in 2012, that it had never owned the Tesosos concessions.

Emery was caught in this lie by Madam Justice Isabel Reyes Kokisch. Justice Kokisch knows the entire history of this case, as she was the Chilean Supreme Court Justice that Barrick tried to have disbarred for her Supreme Court ruling in favor of Mr. Jorge Lopehandia in 2006, regarding ownership of Mina Pascua, Chile.

It is time for Barrick Gold Corporation to advise the investing public of these criminal
proceedings. They have falsified their OSC/ SEC filings with regard to the ownership of the Tesoros concessions. Barrick Gold Corporation (Minera Nevada SpA) does not and never have owned the Tesoros concessions. The titled owner of the Tesoros concessions is Mr Jorge Lopehandia, in partnership with Mountainstar Gold Inc. (MSX).