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Canadian gold miner Iamgold on Thursday reported "solid" production results and named a new CEO, following Stephen Letwin’s decision to retire after a decade at the helm of the mid-tier mining company.

Gordon Stothart, currently president and …

East Africa-focused gold miner Shanta Gold says it is well-positioned for another strong year, after having exceeded its production guidance for 2019. It produced 84 506 oz of gold in the 12 months to December 31, above the guided 80 000 oz to 84 000 oz.

TSX-V-listed Pancontinental Resource has been selected, through a competitive process, to explore the former Brewer gold mine – an abandoned property that lies about 12 km north-east along trend from the producing Haile gold mine in Carolina, US.

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Dual-listed B2Gold on Thursday said it remains well positioned for a continued strong operational and financial performance, with consolidated gold production for the 2020 financial year expected to be between 955 000 oz and just over one-million ounce…

Vancouver-based SSR Mining has achieved record production again in 2019 on the back of solid operating performance at each of its three operations – Marigold, in the US, Seabee in Canada and Puna, in Argentina.

The company’s produced a record 421 906 …

Canadian miner Eldorado Gold has made a new high-grade gold discovery at its Lamaque operations, near Val d’Or, Quebec, and has delayed the preliminary economic assessment (PEA) to include the new zone.

Called the Ormaque zone, the new discovery is lo…

Gold miner Blackham Resources on Thursday reported that quarterly production for the three months to December had increased to 20 003 oz, up from the 17 565 oz produced in the previous quarter.

The increased production was driven by higher mined grade…

Mali’s industrial gold production rose 7% in 2019 to a record 65.1 t, mines ministry statistics showed on Wednesday. The increase was partly due to the launch of production at a mine owned by Australia’s Resolute Mining, ministry official Mamadou Sidib…

A rapid rise in the price of gold since 2000 has driven millions of people to deposits in Africa, South America and elsewhere where they dig for gold using basic technology. Such informal digging – known as artisanal or small-scale mining (ASM) – has b…

Barrick Gold is set to elevate its troubled Papua New Guinea mine to its top-tier assets, despite landowner and government demands to cede a larger stake and deteriorating security at the joint venture with China’s Zijin Mining

With a 20-year lease re…