Cecilia Jamasmie , Senior Editor

The London fix —a benchmark rate used by mining companies, jewellers and central banks to buy, sell and value gold— may have been subject to manipulation in the last few months.

The country’s gross domestic product expanded at an annualized rate of 0.7% in the period, down sharply from the 3.2% in the second quarter.

Deal includes developing a bauxite mine and alumina refinery in the west African country.

Government wants them to come forward and be part of the system.

Firms have run out of room.

Differences should be settled by December or in early in 2014.

Forcing miners to use new method by the set deadline could cut coal exports at least one-third.

Investors eager to get the new industry off the ground willing to finance projects that can secure the availability of the key element.

A gas explosion killed as many as 25 people in a gold mine in eastern Guinea.

Coal miners around the world are being targeted by a mounting number of investors and organizations, concerned with the greenhouse gases generated by the industry.