The Globe and Mail reports in its Monday edition that a Barrick subsidiary is losing millions of dollars as a result of "illegal and dangerous incursions" by Tanzanian villagers who are often armed with spears and machetes, the company says. The Globe's Geoffrey York writes that affidavits and other evidence from Barrick managers, disclosed for a recent Ontario court action, provide a rare glimpse of the violence that erupts regularly between villagers and police around the company's North Mara gold mine in Tanzania. Officials and lawyers for Barrick and its North Mara subsidiary describe the mine as a site of routine conflict, requiring an extensive police presence in the villages surrounding it. Barrick's subsidiary pays a daily fee to more than 150 Tanzanian police officers to provide security in areas as far as 20 kilometres from the company's operations. Apolinary Lyambiko, general manager of the North Mara mine, gave the most vivid description of the conflicts around the mine. "The mine is targeted regularly by trespassers who illegally invade the mine site seeking to steal gold-bearing rock and other property, including fuel and equipment," he said in an affidavit. "Trespassers can be dangerous and violent."