In 2012, for the preliminary estimated corporate production of the yellow metal, total volume of gold mined by the top 10 publicly traded companies dropped roughly 3.4%, from 32 Moz in 2011 to 30.9 Moz. Seven out of 10 companies faced decreases in their attributable gold output while only three of them have reached growth (Figure 1). Figure 1. Provisional …
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