Canadian economy won’t feel impact of battery metal mining

One of the two tailings thickeners experienced rake failure last Friday.

It won't announce its verdict on the matter until an unspecified later date.

But investors hoping the festive season in the world's second-largest gold buyer will boost the metal’s ailing price are likely to be disappointed, analysts say.

Reviving the China-India ore trade which peaked at 120mtpa in 2009 could be part of a grand bargain when Modi and Xi meet for the first time in New Delhi.

CEO Chuck Jeannes says barring a major technological breakthrough global gold production probably peaked in 2013.

A big corporate break-up à la BHP Billiton is definitively not in his books, he told FT.com.

Here is one interpretation of how much is left on Earth.

He argues the omissions and inadequacies of the WGC reports on China's gold demand are far larger than what the body would let the world see.

The country lifted a long-standing ban on selling uranium to energy-starved India in 2012 and both have been negotiating a nuclear safeguards agreement since then.