Mulroney shared the memory with the Star on Wednesday, the day Peter Munk, best known as the founder of Canada’s largest mining company Barrick Gold, died in Toronto, at age 90. A year earlier he had started Barrick Petroleum, an oil and gas exploration company, but soon shifted to gold. “You can take maybe Munk out of Barrick, you cannot take Barrick out of Munk,” he said at an annual shareholders meeting. “The country will be poor without him.”Dr. Barry Rubin, Medical Director of the Peter Munk Cardiac Centre, said that Munk dreamed of Canada having the “leading heart centre in the world.”“The ultimate goal is to be the biggest,” Munk said at a May 2011 Bloomberg summit. With files from BloombergRead more:10 things you might not know about Peter MunkPeter Munk continues philanthropic legacyPeter Munk says he’s leaving Barrick Gold in good hands

Source: thestar March 28, 2018 19:24 UTC