Shares of Barrick Gold Corp. ABX, 0.74% slipped 0.48% to C$22.84 Tuesday, in what proved to be an otherwise all-around positive trading session for the Canadian market, with the S&P/TSX Composite Index GSPTSE, -0.53% rising 0.65% to 20,183.43. Barrick Gold Corp. closed C$15.92 short of its 52-week high (C$38.76), which the company achieved on November 6th. Trading volume of 3.3 M shares eclipsed its 50-day average volume of 3.2 M.