Gold price plummets more than $90

Russian miner posts another quarter of record production on the way to 2.8m ounces in 2019 as its $2.2 billion Natalka mine ramps up.

The deal does not mean Tanzania will immediately lift the demand for Barrick's subsidiary Acacia Mining to pay $190 billion in allegedly unpaid taxes.

It will sell its newest mine to Harmony Gold for $300 million and another mine for 100 million rand ($7.4 million) to China's Heaven-Sent SA Sunshine Investment Company.

Bob Gannicott, Ross Beaty, Terry MacGibbon and Ed Thompson to be honoured at 2018 CMHF annual dinner and induction ceremony.

Chinese buyers are rumoured to be the key targets of the sale.

Canadian start-up EnviroLeach has created a new environment-friendly chemical process with the potential to transform precious metal extraction in the mining and electronic waste (e-waste) sectors.

The Mexico-focused miner produced 4 million ounces of silver in the third quarter of 2017 from its six operating silver mines.

But ex-Sprott, Ivanhoe, Novagold board member stands by comments: “If stating some historical facts makes me a racist, then I suppose that I am a racist.”

India's Multi Commodity Exchange (MCX) has launched the country's first gold options contract in New Delhi to coincide with the gold-buying festival of Dhanteras.