Barrick Gold quarterly profit jumps on higher copper output

(Reuters) – Barrick Gold Corp reported a nearly 19% rise in second-quarter profit on Monday, helped by higher output of copper from its mines.

Barrick’s net earnings stood at $488 million, or 27 cents per share, for the quarter ended June30, compared with $411 million, or 23 cents per share, a year earlier.

(Reporting by Arunima Kumar in Bengaluru; Editing by Shinjini Ganguli)