Ivory Coast gold output up 35% in 2019 after new mine starts

The move will allow the platinum miner to restructure its debt and, it hopes, weather an ongoing decline of platinum prices.

Its Damang mine in Ghana is struggling with current gold prices, the firm said.

Sure there is risk, as Curran explains in this interview with The Gold Report, but the reward could come via either a takeover bid by an established producer seeking to lower its overall costs or by supporting these companies as they transition into emerging producers.

1,111 carats.

They survived by eating roots, cockroaches and frogs, and drinking drips of muddy groundwater.

With the announced cuts the diversified miner brings the total redundancies over the past 18 months to about 2,000.

Year to date gold is one of the better performers, but rhodium comes off worst.

CHART: Strong US dollar turning 2015 into gold's worse run since 1998.

Until early November, the failure at the Canadian Mount Polley copper mine had been the worst such breach in recent years.