Sibanye-Stillwater CEO Neal Froneman this month floated the idea of a merger with peers AngloGold and Gold Fields.

La Mancha holds an interest of about 19% in Endeavour Mining.

Gold is also on track for its worst quarterly performance since December 2016.

Ausenco Engineering won the contract for a 5.5 million-tonne-a-year processing plant and related infrastructure at the Blackwater gold project in central B.C.

The initial 6,800 t/d mill option includes gravity concentration and cyanidation of the concentrates and tails.

For those seeking evidence of a new commodity supercycle, and for the sceptics of a sustained boom in natural resources, Australia’s government forecaster has it covered.

Further bond sell-off could push gold below $1,700, analyst says.

Africa’s biggest fund manager and a key investor in South African gold companies said any consolidation in the sector must benefit the country as well as shareholders.