Lucky Aussie prospector finds massive $260K gold nugget The piece is a 22-cm-long hunk of gold weighing 5.5 kg. Cecilia Jamasmie | January 17, 2013 | 7:50 pm
African Barrick’s 2012 output drops 9% The Tanzania-focused gold minhas suffered from three consecutive years of declining gold production Cecilia Jamasmie | January 17, 2013 | 7:26 pm
Cobre Panama a risky endeavour for First Quantum: analyst Haywood Securities mining analyst, Kerry Smith, says the Vancouver-based miner already has "a lot on its plate." Cecilia Jamasmie | January 17, 2013 | 3:44 pm
Poor decisions force Rio Tinto’s CEO departure, leaves the group with $14bn charge The giant miner will take about $14 billion of writedowns for failed deals in aluminum and coal led by Tom Albanese. Cecilia Jamasmie | January 17, 2013 | 2:15 pm
Is the gold audit petition going to come up short? At least the organizers can be glad they got up the petition when they did. Michael Allan McCrae | January 16, 2013 | 8:56 pm
Germany bringing home 674 tonnes of gold Germans want their bullion where they can see it. Frik Els | January 16, 2013 | 6:04 pm
International watchdog exposes use of forced labour in Canadian-Eritrean gold project The group claims the Eritrean government has been using forced labour to construct a gold mine, in a joint venture with Canadian Nevsun Resources Ltd. Cecilia Jamasmie | January 16, 2013 | 5:31 pm
Gold prices to peak in 2013: GFMS survey Bullion prices will average an all-time high in the first half of 2013, says Thomson Reuters. MINING.com Editor | January 16, 2013 | 4:33 pm
Sales of US silver eagles approach record levels in January US Mint figures indicates sales of silver eagles as in excess of 5,000 ounces as of January 15 Marc Howe | January 16, 2013 | 11:01 am