Sibanye-Stillwater profit soars, targets push for greener tech in future output

The key to getting monster-sized returns in mining equities is to be small - Plethora Precious Metals Fund

This is not the first time the Chilean watchdog has fined Lumina.

Another hundred dollars in the gold price and the equity window will open.

It is very important that we can see the assets in our mix have long-term potential and to the extent that they don't or there is other strategic reasons to disinvest, we will do that.

The companies announced their planned all-share tie-up in January, just two weeks after the Barrick-Randgold merger was finalized.

“Without the security of an extended mining lease, it would be difficult to justify further significant investments in the mine,” a statement by the Canadian miner reads.

Toronto-based private-equity firm Waterton Global Resource Management is pushing for an overhaul of Hudbay Minerals’ board and the exit of the CEO, Alan Hair, over alleged "mismanagement."

CEO Andrew Mackenzie said it was too early to say what impact the recent Vale tailings dam disaster will have on efforts to restart BHP and Vale's jointly owned Samarco mine, shut since November 2015 after a dam collapse killed 19 people.

Two-thirds of 30 analysts polled by the LBMA see double digit gains for the gold price 2019, but the ride will be bumpy.