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Tana Goldfields United Kingdom Plans to reopen the Cononish mine near Tyndrum in Stirlingshire have been delayed due to falling gold prices. Scotgold Resources said the project remained viable and would generate a cashflow of more than £39m before tax over its first seven years of operation, at current gold prices. But it warned that the fluctuating price had dented market confidence. As a result, Scotgold said it had decided not to seek further funding for the scheme until conditions improved. A study has predicted that once operational, the mine could produce up of 20,200 ounces of gold a year. At current prices, that would give the Cononish project a rate of return of about 37% before tax and see the initial investment repaid within 26 months of the start of production. However, Scotgold said the market remained wary after gold prices fell by more than 9% at the beginning of April, the biggest drop for 30 years. Challenging market The depressed market has made the company reconsider plans to seek additional funds to bring the mine into full production. Executive chairman John Bentley said: "The recent sharp decline in the gold price has severely dented market confidence, albeit that there has been significant positive movement since the lows recorded on 15 April 2013. "The potential to raise the required equity financing for the project is considered to be severely challenging under current market conditions. "The board has thus decided to defer an immediate raise pending an improvement in market sentiment." Mr Bentley said the firm would now not be approaching investors until the gold price "calms down". Last November, the mining company secured a pre-development loan worth nearly £1.2m from RMB Resources to help continue the drilling programme at the mine in the Loch Lomond National Park. Considering options Mr Bentley said RMB still backed the scheme and was "evaluating project debt ca

Plans to reopen the Cononish mine near Tyndrum in Stirlingshire have been delayed due to falling gold prices. Scotgold Resources said the project remained viable and would generate a cashflow of more than £39m before tax over its first seven years of operation, at current gold prices. http://deweyayca45.tumblr.com/post/51624802400/falling-gold-prices-delay-plans-to-reopen-cononish-mine

Mining is still the most important sector in South Africa's economy Most of the 80,000 miners across the sector who started striking earlier this week had already accepted an 8% pay offer and returned to work. But workers at Harmony Gold's mines in the central Free State and Northern Cape provinces were holding out for a better deal. The miners' union had been demanding a 60% rise. Employers had offered 6% - the same as the inflation rate. Harmony Gold said its employees had now accepted the pay settlement, the AFP news agency reported. Some electricity workers have also gone on an unofficial strike, leading to severe power cuts in the biggest city, Johannesburg. An extra generator has been installed near the home of former President Nelson Mandela, who arrived there on Sunday after almost three months in hospital. He remains in a critical condition. RELATED NEWS: http://www.experienceproject.com/stories/Tana-Goldfields-Articles/3379489 http://www.goodreads.com/group/105028-tana-goldfields-united-kingdom/comments/20834715-coconut-butterz

TANA GOLDFIELDS PLC was established in 2011 and incorporated in the United Kingdom as a PLC. It was subsequently listed as a public company on the GXG Exchange (symbol: TANA) also in the United Kingdom.

http://pages.rediff.com/tana-goldfields-plc/1903591 Credit: Reuters/Toby Melville A logo hangs outside a branch of Barclays bank in London July 30, 2013. The bank said on Thursday that Paul Knight and Michael Rawlinson will be co-heads of the team and will join Barclays in the fourth quarter. Knight, who will be based in Toronto, will also be a vice-chairman, Barclays said.

http://www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/investing/article-1666644/How-invest-gold-including-coins-funds-ETCs-bullion.html We explain the best ways to invest in gold through funds, Exchange Traded Commodities (ETCs), bullion and coins. The first pure gold coins were struck by King Croesus of Lydia (present-day Turkey) during his reign between 560BC and 547BC - and gold coins have continued as legal tender ever since. Many years down the line, investors still love gold and the precious metal has proved a valuable winner in recent years. Going for gold: The precious metal has cooled after a spectacular rise, but investors say it is still one for the long-term. Update: Gold's recent run Gold hit record highs in September 2011, yet never went on to crack the $2,000 an ounce mark widely forecast at the time The spot gold price, which is typically measured in US dollars, hit a peak of $1,920 during that month. Some tipped it to soar beyond $2,000, but instead gold slipped and spent most of 2012 stuck in a range, shuttling back and forth between around $1,600 and $1,800. A sell-off since December 2012 has seen gold drop as share prices have climbed. The spot gold price stood at $1,571 or £1,040, at the start of this month. The dramatic falls of the past few days sent it down below £1,000 to £899 on 15 April. At $1,370 gold is down 29 per cent on the peak. However, gold bugs - as the precious metal's fans are called - say that bullion's recent dip has to be put into context. Look at a long-term chart of the gold price and you will see that even having lost almost a fifth from its peak, it is still up substantially in recent years. Gold fans say the metal is marking time and while short-term traders may lose money, the long-term fundamental case for investing, based on gold's historic store of value as nations around the world printing money, still stands up. Enlarge Marking time: While gold is off almost 20 per cent from its 2011 peak, fans says that set again

http://jariocaro19.blogspot.com/2013/06/tana-goldfields-how-to-invest-in-gold.html We explain the best ways to invest in gold through funds, Exchange Traded Commodities (ETCs), bullion and coins. The first pure gold coins were struck by King Croesus of Lydia (present-day Turkey) during his reign between 560BC and 547BC - and gold coins have continued as legal tender ever since. Many years down the line, investors still love gold and the precious metal has proved a valuable winner in recent years. Going for gold: The precious metal has cooled after a spectacular rise, but investors say it is still one for the long-term. Update: Gold's recent run Gold hit record highs in September 2011, yet never went on to crack the $2,000 an ounce mark widely forecast at the time The spot gold price, which is typically measured in US dollars, hit a peak of $1,920 during that month. Some tipped it to soar beyond $2,000, but instead gold slipped and spent most of 2012 stuck in a range, shuttling back and forth between around $1,600 and $1,800. A sell-off since December 2012 has seen gold drop as share prices have climbed. The spot gold price stood at $1,571 or £1,040, at the start of this month. The dramatic falls of the past few days sent it down below £1,000 to £899 on 15 April. At $1,370 gold is down 29 per cent on the peak. However, gold bugs - as the precious metal's fans are called - say that bullion's recent dip has to be put into context. Look at a long-term chart of the gold price and you will see that even having lost almost a fifth from its peak, it is still up substantially in recent years. Gold fans say the metal is marking time and while short-term traders may lose money, the long-term fundamental case for investing, based on gold's historic store of value as nations around the world printing money, still stands up. Enlarge Marking time: While gold is off almost 20 per cent from its 2011 peak, fans says that set against the bigger picture it is simply consolidating.

SYDNEY-Australia's gold producers are struggling to deal with the dual blow from rising costs and falling prices, casting a shadow over earnings results that are due next month. The latest production reports from Newcrest Mining Ltd., Australia's largest listed gold miner, and the smaller OZ Minerals Ltd. Thursday pointed to higher costs and tighter margins-underscoring the challenge facing producers after gold's biggest quarterly drop in decades. Gold prices have fallen more than 20% since the start of January amid expectations the U.S. would start to taper its program of monetary easing as its economy stabilizes, putting miners of the precious ... Related Sites: http://tnxmaverick.com/

Gold's miserable 2013 has been devastating for gold stocks. This sector, arguably the best performing over the 2000s, has quickly become the pariah of the markets. And no group of gold stocks has seen more carnage than the junior explorers. Descriptive of their name, junior gold explorers are small mining companies that explore for gold. And within this sub-sector is a wide spectrum of exploration stages, from early-stage to advanced-stage. Early-stagers are either in the process of looking for a gold deposit, or are in the beginning stages of delineating one. In some cases they've moved to resource definition, but any inventory estimates are still rough due to their deposits not yet seeing enough drill holes. Resources would be categorized as "in-house" or "inferred" (as measured by NI 43-101 standards), and they're nowhere near reliable enough to build an operating and/or economic model. Advanced-stage junior gold explorers already have gold deposits. And these deposits have seen enough drill holes to give a greater confidence in their depth/breadth and resource estimates. In this stage resources are categorized as measured and/or indicated, and in some cases proven and/or probable reserves.

When asked whether they had made any changes to their precious metal investments over the past year, 37pc of investors said they hadn't changed their allocations to silver and gold, while 43pc had increased their holdings.RELATED NEWS: http://tanagoldfieldsplc.blogspot.com/ http://www.geni.com/projects/Losing-Faith-in-Gold-Tana-Goldfields-Booklikes/15594