Westgold Resources spin-out Valiant Gold has defied souring sentiment for the precious metal with its strong start to life on the stock exchange.
Adrian Rauso
The corporate vehicle that China’s biggest gold miner uses for acquisitions has become a major shareholder in the Simon Lill-chaired Kairos Minerals.
A South Western prospector believes he is close to finding a legendary gold deposit which has been lost for more than 150 years.
Will Corbett
Shares in Killi Resources more than doubled after the junior gold and copper explorer appointed former Fortescue chief executive Nev Power as its chairman.
A cashed-up Perseus Mining appears to have lined up its next takeover target after grabbing 9.9 per cent of a fellow West Africa-focused gold junior.
Some ASX-listed gold miners will bear the brunt of higher fuel prices far worse than others, according to fresh analysis.
Nature may be reclaiming one woman’s cliffside mansion near Sydney but the earth is proving far more generous at her Goldfields mine, where net profits have surged nearly 1000 per cent in a single year.
Gold headed for the biggest weekly loss in six years, as war in the Middle East boosted energy and reduced expectations for rate cuts.
Yihui Xie
Matsa Resources says mining is continuing at its Devon Pit gold operation in the northern Goldfields following a media report its contractor was standing workers down because of fuel supply uncertainty.
Neil Watkinson & Oliver Lane
The Perth-based miner said annual profit more than doubled to $567.4 million on revenue of $1.54 billion.
Sean Smith
The gold miner has called it a day in one of the world’s most dangerous countries by selling a majority stake in the Meyas Sand project.
Northern Star Resources shares have been hammered and its vulnerability to a takeover called into question, as the gold miner’s 37-year old Super Pit mill buckles again while holding out for a replacement.
Simone Grogan and Daniel Newell
Gold fell, pressured by a stronger US dollar and concerns over higher interest rates, as the war in the Middle East extended into a second week and oil surged towards $US120 a barrel.
Robin Paxton
The market’s energy sector cushioned losses elsewhere, storming 5.5 per cent higher as the spot price of Brent crude oil leapt to as high as $US82.37 a barrel.
Tom Richardson and Sean Smith
Australia’s gold mining majors collectively gained about $7 billion on Monday as the US-Israel war on Iran gives the precious metal yet another price boost.
Not content with collecting bins and policing front verges, one council has decided to try its hand at mineral exploration. Plus: Perth land shortage might be a little over-inflated.
Abandoned talks between Rio Tinto and Glencore have thrown new light on a longstanding copper hunt the Anglo Australian miner has with Andrew Forrest-backed goldie Greatland Resources.
Simone Grogan
Tim Goyder’s Minerals 260 has secured a $220 million funding package for its Bullabulling gold project from the world’s biggest mining royalty company.
One high-flying gold executive has reaped more than $50 million after cashing out another big chunk of his shareholding in the company he built from scratch.
Gold slipped further below $US5,000 an ounce in thin trading, with much of Asia closed for the Lunar New Year and after a US holiday on Monday.
The new owners of a nickel processing plant near Kalgoorlie that’s been unable to be revived since the global financial crisis are raising $175 million to shift gears to better fortunes being found in gold.
Genesis Minerals has emerged as the successful bidder for Magnetic Resources’ neighbouring Lady Julie project in Laverton, tallying up another acquisition for the busy Raleigh Finlayson-led gold miner.
Specialised blue-collar workers on Western Australian mine sites are raking in more than experienced surgeons, thanks to a gold mining boom.
Last year’s stellar price run for gold delivered a monster increase in Northern Star Resources’ first-half revenue to more than $3.4 billion — but investors will not enjoy the spoils.
Daniel Newell
