Today's earnings release was a first for Jamie Sokalsky as Barrick Gold (ABX -5.4%) CEO, so he's in the difficult position of defending the company he was hired to fix. On cost overruns at the Pascua-Lama mine: Any mistakes were "in the structure as to how we set up the building of Pascua-Lama. But I don’t see that we made any fundamental mistakes in making investment decisions."