Getting gold out of Kumtor is a pain, and not because of the high remoteness. Rather, Kyrgyzstan’s troubled politics holds back Kumtor and helps explain why foreign-run mines are so rare
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Former Assistant of the US Treasury Paul Craig Roberts spoke yesterday about the problems that Western policymakers face and the inevitability of the current financial system ending in ruin.
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Gold miners have to be the most hated sector in the markets these days. At best they’ve been forgotten as the hyper-complacent general stock markets continue to inexplicably levitate. At worst they’re utterly despised.
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A Canadian joint venture operating one of the world’s largest gold mines and the government of the Dominican Republic reached an agreement Friday to inspect the company’s exports.
Barrick gold shipments to be inspected Read More »
Mining industry news of late has been dominated by massive write-downs: $6.5 billion for Barrick; Kinross added $3.2 billion to the $2.5 billion written off last year on its West Africa operations.
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I cannot tell you that gold and the resource shares will not continue lower, but I have been selectively buying and upgrading the quality of my personal portfolio
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Another major Chinese acquisition could have been African Barrick Gold, Tanzania’s largest gold mining concern.
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Canadian Kinross Gold Corporation plans to suspend operations at its La Coipa gold and silver mine in northern Chile in the second half of 2013.
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Plenty of junior miners have money in the till — at least, enough to last them for a year or two. But because investor sentiment has been extraordinarily bearish, deals that might have been available six months or a year ago are no longer on the table.
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Junior miners, small mining companies still in the exploration or early production stages of mine development, are having an increasingly hard time raising sufficient funds to get their mines into production.
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