Newmont, Barrick, Anglogold lost 1.3m ounces last year

Madsen is one of the highest grade undeveloped gold deposits in the world.

The Kennady North property includes the Faraday and Kelvin kimberlites.

The new permit replaces two previous ones that covered a smaller area.

Miner will pay a special dividend worth $4 billion, or $2.43 cent a share, as it recorded its highest annual underlying earnings in the last five years.

The world's second largest miner has confirmed an "exciting" copper find at its Winu project, in the Paterson Range in the East Pilbara.

The two-year MGX-UBC research program has an initial goal of creating a hybrid silicon-graphite anode that will not require industry retooling.

The tough talk underscored deep personality and cultural differences between the world’s two biggest gold producers.

Zimbabwe's diamond sector has struggled since the government kicked out private companies from the eastern Marange fields.

The study will incorporate results from 22,000 metres of diamond drilling the company completed in 2017 and 2018.