Para pours first doré bar at Arizona mine

Hint: He lost about 99% of his wealth this year.

All about the crypto-currency.

The transaction creates a diversified, Americas-based mid-tier gold producer that would generate the equivalent of 250,000 to 270,000 ounces of gold next year.

South Australian Premier, Jay Weatherill, has reproached the federal government for saying BHP could resume its Olympic Dam expansion within months, calling it a "cruel hoax."

The potential is appealing. Peru holds13% of the world's copper reserves, 4% of gold, 22% of silver, 7.6% of zinc, 9% of lead and 6% of tin reserves.

Employment in the mining sector will rise by 7.4% over the next four years, with the oil and gas sector providing the largest number of new jobs

The company is cutting its Argentine work force as Chileans work on water treatment facility.

Northern Dynasty share price gains 12%.

But upside is limited by continued ETF gold liquidation.