A review of the mining code in January had shown that Mali, one of Africa's biggest gold producers, was not receiving a fair share of profits while granting too many tax breaks.
Now that Chile has passed an increase in mining royalties, copper miners are pushing for incentives to keep investing in production of the metal needed for the renewable energy revolution.
Concerns have grown that China could further restrict exports of the strategic minerals after it limited exports of germanium and gallium late last month.
The rise in gold production was driven by higher output at Carlin mine in Nevada and return to normal throughput levels on completion of maintenance work at the site.