shares of barrick gold corp abx slipped 030 to c2359 wednesday in what proved to be an allaround poor trading session for the canadian market with the sptsx composite index gsptse falling 066 to 1989165 barrick gold corp closed c991 below its 52week high c3350 which the company reached on march 8th trading volume of 79 m shares eclipsed its 50day average volume of 76 m