Commodity focus: Gold
Image: Gold Industry Group BY ELIZABETH FABRI WHILE the price had not yet returned to 2016 highs of $US1357 per ounce, on 11 August the price recorded a two month high of $US1289 – about $A1620 — leaving many miners optimistic for the year ahead. At last month’s Diggers and Dealers conference, more than 2100 miners, investors and service companies touched down at one of Australia’s oldest gold towns, Kalgoorlie, WA, to celebrate the industry across three days of informative sessions, networking events (and late night soirees). While many commodities were covered across the forum, it was gold that dominated discussion with many conversations had on and off-site on the commodity’s ‘comeback’ amid a weaker US dollar, and war of…