Indonesia releases new rules on export revenue repatriation

“If you don’t have cash flow and credibility, you are not going to build a mine right now.”

Large speculators in the gold market cut long positions by 16%, biggest decline this year.

Explorers face a wide range of risks.

It seems unlikely that Canada's Northern Dynasty could go it alone on the massive copper-gold mine.

A group of 707 Chileans is seeking compensation for health problems allegedly caused by Boliden's toxic waste dumped near their homes in the eighties.

Partner in the open-pit gold and copper project, Northern Dynasty Minerals, was quick to clarify it will still go ahead with it.

About 40,000 hectares of Amazonic forest, not 18,000 as the government thought, has been destroyed by illegal mining in Peru.

"The economics of gold mining have not been as well understood as they could be by a broad range of people including governments, communities and even employees."

Janet Yellen, now the clear frontrunner, is considered the main architect of the Fed's quantitative easing program under which gold has gained 60%.