The company announced it will defer completing the facility's rare earth hydrometallurgical leaching, purification and rare earth precipitation circuits until 2024.
"With inflation close to being in line with expectations, gold prices were higher on fresh speculative buying ahead of the new year on bets that the bigger funds might move to the long side of gold."
An article in the British Medical Journal makes the environmental case for ending what the authors call an “outdated and potentially harmful” tradition.