Scorpio signs toll milling contract at Goldwedge

The Donlin deposit holds an estimated 33 million ounces of gold, which would be extracted over the expected 27-year operating life of the open pit mine.

When the instinct is strongest to curl up in a ball and wait out the ravages of the down market is also when smart companies snap up distressed projects and get to work while capital costs are low.

First there is monetary inflation, then there is asset price inflation, and the final stage will be consumer price inflation.

The Chinese yuan is gathering prestige in the eyes of the International Monetary Fund, a move that could set off alarm bells in Washington.

Pressured once again by the belief that the Federal Reserve will hike interest rates next month.

Gold purchases during the all important festival season set to be lowest since 2007, as two years of drought erode rural Indian's buying power.

Underground scoop operator has died.

The company said it would announce a final decision on the matter early next year.

While the law lets citizens mine, sell and own riches mined in space, it does not grant sovereignty, ownership, exclusive rights or jurisdiction over any celestial body.