Gold Top Stories

Condor Gold to start building mine in Nicaragua

Despite the political unrest in the Central American country, Condor has received an environmental permit for the development of a processing plant and associated mine site infrastructure at La India gold project.

Valentina Ruiz Leotaud | August 6, 2018 | 10:18 am

Copper supply woes on show with No. 2 mine output to halve

Production at Grasberg in Indonesia will fall by more than…

Bloomberg News | August 6, 2018 | 7:07 am

Saudis discover 1,200-year-old mining hub

Dawadmi is presumed to have been a hub from where…

Valentina Ruiz Leotaud | August 5, 2018 | 9:48 pm

Massive gold treasure found in Kazakhstan

Archaeologists unearthed 3,000 gold and precious metals objects and jewelry…

Valentina Ruiz Leotaud | August 5, 2018 | 1:39 pm

Canadian junior ready to start drilling for copper in Spain

Pan Global’s subsidiary Minera Águilas has received the necessary permits…

Valentina Ruiz Leotaud | August 5, 2018 | 11:44 am

Senior golds look to juniors for growth: David Goguen

Goguen provides his views on where senior gold producers will be hunting and which companies will meet newly stringent criteria in the gold-hungry world marketplace of today—and tomorrow.

The Gold Report | September 10, 2012 | 3:42 am

Investors shrug news of fresh Mongolia bid for control of Oyu Tolgoi as Turquoise Hill climbs 15%

Mongolia's new mining minister Davajav Ganhuyag is one of the politicians in favour of upping the country's stake.

Frik Els | September 9, 2012 | 9:32 pm

South African police brace as Lonmin workers set to return on Monday

South African police are braced for possible violence ahead of Monday's back-to-work deadline for striking workers at Lonmin's flagship platinum mine, where 44 people died in labour strife last month, most of them at the hands of police.

Yahoo! UK and Ireland | September 9, 2012 | 9:17 pm

Surging Chinese gold imports and the case for the world’s next reserve currency

"For the first time in history China has imported twice as much gold as it has 'imported' US Treasuries."

Frik Els | September 9, 2012 | 6:51 pm

Why a former metals trader is leaving China for good after 16 years

"The result is the biggest property bubble in history, which when it pops will sound like a thousand firework accidents."

Frik Els | September 8, 2012 | 11:59 pm

Xstrata scoffs at new Glencore offer as merger of equals becomes hostile takeover

The new Glencore offer is "significantly lower than would be expected in a takeover" and the intention to replace Mick Davis represented “a significant risk” says Xstrata's board.

Frik Els | September 8, 2012 | 8:19 pm

Mike Niehuser’s gold investing lessons from banking school

Mike Niehuser, founder of Beacon Rock Research, incorporates his banking school background into his mining industry analysis.

The Gold Report | September 8, 2012 | 9:00 am

Glasenberg grabs top job from Davis in new Glenstrata deal

Even before building up Xstrata through a series of billion dollar transactions, Big Mick was a formidable dealmaker who with fellow South African Brian Gilbertson created Billiton before selling it to BHP in 2001.

Frik Els | September 7, 2012 | 6:05 pm

Gold breaks out; jobs report is weak

In anticipation of the job's report, the markets and gold jumped yesterday, but there was no good news for President Obama as Friday's report shows the US added a paltry 96,000 jobs in August.

Michael Allan McCrae | September 7, 2012 | 2:58 pm

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