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• COLUMN-Think gold is a poor investment? Try gold miners: Clyde Russell Wednesday, 12 Jun 2013 | 2:13 AM ET

  --Clyde Russell is a Reuters market analyst. Newcrest Mining Ltd, Australia's biggest gold miner, was the latest producer to disappoint investors, issuing a profit warning and announcing plans to slash up to $6 billion in asset values, reduce costs and cut planned expansions.

• Miners may take more hits from weak gold prices after Newcrest Monday, 10 Jun 2013 | 12:07 PM ET

  SYDNEY/ TORONTO, June 10- The pain is not likely to be over for investors in mining shares after the steepest drop in gold prices in a generation led to a $6 billion asset writedown at Australia's Newcrest Mining, fuelling speculation of more to come.

• NYSE stocks posting largest percentage decreases Friday, 7 Jun 2013 | 1:23 PM ET

  NEW YORK-- A look at the 10 biggest percentage decliners on New York Stock Exchange at 1 p.m.:. Iron Mountain Inc. fell 15.0 percent to $29.25. Quiksilver Inc. fell 11.9 percent to $6.76.

• UPDATE 1-South African mine wage demands roil shares, rand Monday, 20 May 2013 | 9:02 AM ET

  *Gold companies' shares drop, rand also under pressure. JOHANNESBURG, May 20- Big wage hikes demanded by the government-allied trade union in South Africa's coal and gold industries helped push the rand to a four-year low on Monday, highlighting the ripple effect of the prospect of more turmoil in the industry.

• South African wage demands send rand to four year low Monday, 20 May 2013 | 7:27 AM ET

  *Gold companies' shares drop, rand also under pressure. JOHANNESBURG, May 20- Big wage hikes demanded by the government-allied trade union in South Africa's coal and gold industries helped push the rand to a four year low on Monday, highlighting the ripple effect of the prospect of more turmoil in the industry.

• Narrow base cools economic impact of hot Ghana bourse Tuesday, 14 May 2013 | 3:27 AM ET

  *Ghana bourse in middle of African pack. ACCRA, May 14- Ghana's bourse is up more than 50 percent so far this year, but the reluctance of key companies to list in the West African market may be blunting its economic impact.

• UPDATE 4-Paulson's Advantage fund stung by plunge in gold Thursday, 18 Apr 2013 | 4:01 PM ET

  BOSTON/ NEW YORK, April 18- Hedge fund billionaire John Paulson's best-known fund is down 2.4 percent in April, largely due to the sharp selloff in gold, a source familiar with the numbers said on Thursday.

• UPDATE 3-Paulson fund hurt by sharp drop in gold -source Thursday, 18 Apr 2013 | 1:23 PM ET

  BOSTON/ NEW YORK, April 18- John Paulson's Advantage Fund, one of the hedge fund manager's biggest portfolios, is down 2.4 percent in April, largely due to the sharp selloff in gold, a source familiar with the numbers said on Thursday.

• UPDATE 2-Sharp drop in gold caught many funds off guard -Burbank Monday, 15 Apr 2013 | 7:02 PM ET

  BOSTON, April 15- Hedge fund manager John Burbank, a long-time investor in gold, said the recent sharp selloff in the precious metal came as a surprise to many investors as some economic improvement and a general decline in commodity prices took their toll.

• ANALYSIS-South Africa mine wage talks may be toughest yet Monday, 15 Apr 2013 | 8:22 AM ET

  *Coal producers also hit by wave of labour militancy. JOHANNESBURG, April 15- Wage talks across South Africa's mining sector starting in May will be among the toughest ever with strikes a certainty given inflation, worker militancy and shrinking company margins.

• REUTERS SUMMIT-Skills shortage could hamper Africa growth surge Thursday, 11 Apr 2013 | 1:45 PM ET

  *Africa has glut of humanities, social science graduates. DAKAR, April 11- Abdoul Aziz Tamba is in his final year of an English course at Senegal's Cheikh Anta Diop University, but he has little hope of finding employment after three years of study.

• ANALYSIS-Russian miner shows new niche for hedging as gold rally stalls Thursday, 28 Mar 2013 | 9:14 AM ET

  *Petropavlovsk to hedge nearly half of output to 2014. Russian-focused miner Petropavlovsk, which is among the most highly geared miners in the sector, said last month it would hedge almost half its output to March 2014. Analysts say the hedge cuts the potential for an earnings drop, given Petropavlovsk's spending plans and a stretched balance sheet.

• UPDATE 1-AngloGold Ashanti earnings plunge as strikes bite Wednesday, 20 Feb 2013 | 3:21 AM ET

  JOHANNESBURG, Feb 20- AngloGold Ashanti, the world's third-largest bullion producer, reported a plunge in quarterly earnings, hit by wildcat strikes at its South African mines and poor performance at one of its largest African operations.

• UPDATE 3-Anglo promises austerity after posting first loss in a decade Friday, 15 Feb 2013 | 9:17 AM ET

  LONDON, Feb 15- Anglo American slid to its first net loss for more than a decade in 2012 after profits fell across all units and the global miner wrote $4 billion off the value of its flagship Minas Rio iron ore project in Brazil.

• AngloGold Ashanti holds off on Mali mine's expansion Wednesday, 13 Feb 2013 | 1:02 PM ET

  DAKAR, Feb 13- AngloGold Ashanti is to hold off on a $500 million expansion plan for its Sadiola joint venture mine in western Mali until the security situation becomes clearer, a company executive said on Wednesday. "We are waiting for a little more certainty in terms of how the security situation in Mali pans out," Duffy told Reuters in an interview in Dakar. "

• RPT-UPDATE 1-Global miners sweep out loss-makers as profits plunge Monday, 11 Feb 2013 | 3:59 PM ET

  *Rio Tinto kicks off results on Feb. 14. MELBOURNE/ LONDON, Feb 11- Global mining companies are set unveil their biggest falls in profit in more than a decade and are clearing the decks with multibillion-dollar writedowns on poorly performing assets as they bring in new chief executives.

• Gold Fields spin-off a vote on S.Africa mining industry Friday, 8 Feb 2013 | 12:20 AM ET

  *Gold Fields' South African assets list Monday. JOHANNESBURG, Feb 8- South Africa's Gold Fields will list most of its local assets as a separate company from Monday, testing investor appetite for a mining industry battered by labour unrest. Gold Fields is spinning off two of its three South African mines, both of which were hit by labour unrest last year.

• Anglo American's $4 Billion Hit Clears Way for New CEO Tuesday, 29 Jan 2013 | 4:52 PM ET

  

  Anglo American took a $4 billion hit to its Minas Rio project on Tuesday, clearing the decks for new boss Mark Cutifani and indicating that the delayed Brazilian operation will eventually get off the ground.

• UPDATE 3-Anglo American's $4 bln hit clears decks for new CEO Tuesday, 29 Jan 2013 | 8:03 AM ET

  LONDON, Jan 29- Anglo American took a $4 billion hit to its Minas Rio project on Tuesday, clearing the decks for new boss Mark Cutifani and indicating that the delayed Brazilian operation will eventually get off the ground.

• UPDATE 2-Anglo American takes $4 bln hit on Minas Rio Tuesday, 29 Jan 2013 | 3:42 AM ET

  LONDON, Jan 29- Anglo American Plc will take a $4 billion writedown on its Minas Rio iron ore operation in Brazil after delays and cost overruns forced the mining group to increase expenditure on the project.