Clive Johnson, president and CEO of B2Gold, has built the company from a gold explorer in 2007 into a senior gold producer with an annual production run rate of about one million ounces, with plenty of organic growth yet to come. With the gold price increasing, the company is paying dividends and will soon be debt free — a rarity for a gold major. The company is also advancing philanthropic uses of its growing financial resources. Here Johnson talks with Mining Journal's Paul Harris.