Arpon said Bersamen was also divested of 15 grams of gold he had recovered from the open mining pit and P2,000 cash after he was shot. He said the killing may have stemmed from a conflict among small-scale miners engaged in the open pit ...
So, why have I been reluctant to discuss gold mining shares on this blog? Well, in the first instance, because I think that investing in mining equities (and especially gold miners) is a highly specialised field, where you do need ...
The gold price rose from $799 per ounce in early December 2007 to $923 per ounce by the end of January 2008. It looked like a great time to buy gold miners. But if you jumped in then, you lost money. That happened even though the price ...
In March 1886, nearly forty years after the California Gold Rush, legend has it that Australian gold miner George Harrison stumbled across a rocky outcrop of gold in what was then the Zuid Afrikaanse Republiek.
Xstrata Plc, the world's fourth-largest copper miner, has resumed open pit mining operations at its Ernest Henry copper and gold project in Australia after rain disruptions. Posted: Thursday , 08 Jan 2009. SYDNEY (Reuters) - ...
In an outlook and update released after Wednesday’s market close, the gold miner said full-year production for 2009 is expected to be approximately 2.4 to 2.5 million gold equivalent ounces, an increase of approximately 32% over 2008 ...
Gold miner GoldCorp announced record gold output for Q4 2008 and it also forecast a 50% increase in its production over the next five years. Its total cash costs for '08 came in at roughly $300 per ounce. Bravo. ...
"Final permitting of the new permanent tailings facility at Chinchan is a significant milestone for Gold Hawk and its shareholders, and a key component of our strategy to restart production at the Coricancha mine," said Kevin Drover, ...