JOHANNESBURG — A strike by tens of thousands of South African gold miners severely affected production in the struggling industry on Wednesday. There were no reports of violence and two mining companies reached a settlement with their workers.

South Africa's gold industry has been on the precipice for weeks, but tens of thousands of gold miners finally took the plunge Tuesday evening and went on strike after weeks of stalled negotiations. South African Gold Miners Go On Strike, Reject 'Slave …

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"They take our gold, and we get cyanide," they shout. Demonstrators that range from environmentalists to parents with their children, students, poorly clad pensioners, and well-off looking middle class citizens have been protesting in Bucharest for …

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A Florida family who spends their time together hunting for treasure struck it rich over the weekend, hauling up an estimated $300,000 worth of gold from an historic wreckage in the Atlantic Ocean. "What's really neat about them is they are a family …

(Kitco News) – Gold prices ended the U.S. day session solidly lower Wednesday, on profit taking from short-term traders and on a technical correction from recent gains. The geopolitical tensions in the market place eased just a bit Wednesday, which …

The gold price is back over $1400 an ounce thanks to a double-dose of trouble, but that's not the important news about the commodity which also acts as a currency. Of greater significance than fear about the crisis in Syria, and the potential for a …

NUM, which represents two-thirds of the country's gold mine workers, has already opened the prospect of a compromise, saying it was prepared to lower its pay increase demands for some specific employee categories. The union still wanted a 60 percent …