Streamlining and incentives have made Harmony the most productive gold-mining firm in South Africa.
Analysts and fund managers point to a number of reasons for the poor performance of gold-mining stocks.
Rio Tinto, an Anglo-Australian mining company, recently said it was withdrawing from a gold-mining project in Kurdistan.
China also is home to a booming gold-mining industry that keeps it as the world's largest gold producer.
Johannesburg's early days as a gold-mining town, and the ensuing mass urbanisation, left an acrid legacy in the form of Apartheid.
Holmes looks for gold-mining stocks, which collectively are down from where they were 24 months ago, to outpace gold itself.
Gold-mining shares have lagged both the larger equity rally and the gains in gold prices, but McAvity is not surprised.
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But gold-mining is the new hope for the region, where Barrick, a huge Canadian firm, is opening several new mines.
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On August 28th protesters shouting nationalist slogans foiled an auction of gold-mining concessions by storming a television studio broadcasting the event.
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Since 1956, Van Eck has offered a mutual fund that holds gold-mining shares the Van Eck International Investors Gold Fund (INIVX).
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Today, Palin's parents stay busy hunting, fishing, gold-mining and caring for grandchildren.
There are five main gold-mining ETFs, with the biggest by assets under management being the Market Vectors Gold Miners ETF (GDX).
The result, marketed under the name of Bauxsol by Virotec International, a former gold-mining company, has proved to be an effective mopper-upper of mining waste.
Kinross is a Canadian-based gold-mining company with mines and projects in Brazil, Canada, Chile, Ecuador, Ghana, Mauritania, Russia and the U.S., employing approximately 7, 500 people worldwide.
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On the sell side, the Marketocracy gurus were selling shares of South African gold-mining company, Anglogold (nyse: AU - news - people ).
Data from the New York-based consultancy CPM Group also shows gold-mining output rising, with some 66 million ounces in 2009, followed by 68 million in 2010.
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The ETF invests in global silver- and gold-mining companies and boasts Barrick Gold Corp. ( ABX) as its biggest holding, comprising 14.7% of the overall portfolio by value.
As an investment holding, gold-mining stocks are unique in that they hold appeal both for their appreciation potential as well as a hedge against periods of economic uncertainty.
Revenue hit a record high even though gold-mining output was down from the year-ago quarter due to factors such as mine sequencing and lower ore grades in certain mines.
Mine supply for silver is rising faster than for other metals, helped by an increase of by-product from gold-mining operations plus a number of major primary projects in recent years.
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Once upon a time gold bulls had to pay a hefty markup to buy coins or had to purchase shares in gold-mining companies and hope that the management was competent.
Over the last several months, the chief executives of a number of major gold-mining companies said they are putting more emphasis on spending restraint and returning capital to shareholders, rather than a race for more total production.
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Bobby Godsell, a former chairman of AngloGold Ashanti, the world's third-biggest gold-mining company, who is a member of Mr Manuel's commission, says the odds of South Africa's mines being nationalised are as remote as America's Federal Reserve Bank being abolished by the Republican Tea Party.
When gold prices rallied in the late summer into early fall, the gold-mining stock ETFs outperformed the gold price, but when gold prices fell, the miner ETFs underperformed, said Christian Magoon, chief executive officer of Magoon Capital, who tracks performance of ETFs, particularly gold ETFs.
If you share our conviction that liquidity and transparency should remain of utmost importance for any investment, the best method to gain exposure to depressed gold prices is to buy the stocks of publicly traded gold-mining companies, which typically offer more upside potential than the underlying commodity or ETFs designed to mimic the spot price.
Investigators determined that Marin had ordered the quick-acting poison -- typically used in agriculture and gold mining -- from a California-based company and that it was delivered by FedEx to his home in 2011.
Bruce Bragagnolo, chief executive officer of the Vancouver-based gold mining firm, said the goal is a 10-year mine life producing 100, 000 ounces of gold per year.
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