METAL DETECTIVE

Scaling China's gold mountain

CHINA’S growing mountain of gold has been too steep to climb for most foreign firms but a gradual shift from government to private ownership is opening up more opportunities for juniors hoping to “Australianise” some Chinese gold mines. <b><i>The Metal Detective</i> by Stephen Bell</b>

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The mountain seems an apt metaphor for China’s blossoming gold production, which has grown 50% in the past half a decade – almost an exact reverse image of South Africa’s decline in output. Interestingly,...

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