South Africa looks a lot like the global gold mining industry in that it has not encouraged reinvestment in its mining industry’s future, says Barrick Gold president and CE Dr Mark Bristow. "In fact, if anything, South Africa has harvested what it received back in 1994," adds Bristow, a hugely successful discovery-and-development protagonist, who was asked by Mining Weekly to provide guidance on how South Africa should go about attracting investment in exploration.