Gold mining companies in Africa, when we speak of larger companies with 50–100 people employed, and good organization, they sell their gold to best refineries in the world, to the dealers and to the clients who have signed up contracts of pre-financing or forward gold production. read more
Gold Fields production down due to unbundling of certain assets in South Africa into a newly created company called Sibanye Gold. 3 of the companies took on major writedowns on their assets in the last quarter of 2011 and that affected their annual profits (Newmont $1.6B, Kinross $2.94B, Agnico-Eagle Mines $644.9M). read more