Gold recovered from a near seven-week low on prospects of a historic US relief bill.

A total of 22 workers were trapped in the Hushan mine, in Shandong province, after the blast on Jan. 10.

Neal Froneman is considering retiring in two to three years time, but would first like to double the size of Sibanye Stillwater.

Drill highlights include 14 metres of 42.9 g/t gold starting at 61 metres; 11 metres of 46.2 g/t gold from 48 metres; and 18 metres of 22.1 g/t from 175 metres.

Study suggests an 8-year, 1,070 t/d underground mine, producing an average of 102,000 gold oz. annually at all-in sustaining costs of $948 per oz.

Serious gold down days are nearly always driven by heavy speculator selling in super-leveraged gold futures.