According to the latest statistics from the China Gold Association, in 1H 2021, domestic raw material gold production was 152.75 mt, a decrease of 17.32 mt compared with the same period in 2020, down 10.18% year-on-year, among which 122.72 mt were mineral gold from mines and 30.03 mt were by-product gold from non-ferrous products. The supply of imported gold raw materials increased steadily, with 52.19 mt of gold produced from imported raw materials, up 9.33% year-on-year. In general, the country produced a total of 204.94 mt of gold, down 5.90% year-on-year.

Gold output in Zimbabwe increased noticeably by 10% to 146,000 tonnes during January-August because small producers increased production, according to official data.

China produced a total of 101.197 tonnes of gold in the first quarter of 2017, down 10.366 tonnes or 9.29% from last year’s level.

The geologist behind Lundin Gold’s Fruta del Norte, a nearly 5 million ounce gold project, is heading back into the Ecuadorian jungles to find potentially two “Lost Cities of Gold.”

China’s State-owned Zijin Mining, said July 15 net profit of listed shareholders fell 60.48% year-on-year for the first half of 2016 to 530 million yuan, or 0.025 yuan per share.

National Statistics Institute data show Mexico’s copper output fell 3.7% year-on-year to 39,760 tonnes in March.

Vale delivered a strong operational performance in 4Q 2015 and in 2015, according to its latest email to SMM, with annual and quarterly production records in iron ore, nickel, copper, and gold.

Zijin Mining entered trial production of its 3.3 million-tpy lead and zinc ore processing project in Inner Mongolia’s Urat Rear Banner, bynrnews.com reports.

Zijin Mining’s profit from copper products fell 2.77% year-on-year to 2.39 million yuan in the first half of 2015, according to the company’s mid-year earnings report.

Zijin Mining’s zinc concentrate output increased 48.34% year-on-year to 68,891 tonnes (zinc content) in the first half of 2015.