The first thing that stands out is that production costs of gold are rising on a per-ounce basis, even when removing write-downs. In Q4FY11, it cost ABX $1253 to produce an ounce of gold ...

A scan of major gold producers' earnings suggests the cost of mining gold has risen dramatically over the past few years. Part of that is a true increase, owing to inflation and the expense of ...

Iamgold said in a new release that total cost of the project has risen this year and its 70% of the costs will be C$1.1 billion or C$1.2 billion, compared to C$875 million or C$925 million last ...

The chart below shows the cost of mining gold for Agnico Eagle, one of the 10 biggest gold producers in the world, over time. It increased during the gold bull market in the 2000s and declined during the subsequent bear market. Chart 1: Gold prices (yellow line, London P.M. Fix, yearly averages, in $) and Agnico Eagle's mining costs per ounce ...

The use of the "all-in sustaining costs" and "all-in costs" metrics has been widely adopted by gold mining companies as part of their overall reporting disclosure. These non-GAAP metrics have helped provide greater clarity and improve investor understanding. All companies involved in gold-mining are encouraged to use these metrics.

Barrick Gold reported AISC of $788 per ounce and a cost of sales of $980 per ounce in the fourth quarter. The company's AISC was 4.2% higher YoY due to …

For example, Goldcorp (GG) came in at $1,072/oz, Newmont (NEM) had$1,258/oz, and Barrick (ABX) was at $1,347/oz. Using our data from Tickerscores, we looked at the average all-in cash cost of 32 smaller gold producers that we cover (under $2 billion market cap). It came in at $1,390/oz.

In a one-off event, BRE-X, a Canadian gold mining scam, cost investors $6.5bn in the biggest mining scandal of all time (Ro, 2012). There are …

The most expensive place in the world to mine gold is in South Africa. There, all-in gold production costs can be more than twice as much as in Peru, which is the least expensive place to mine gold. According to the Thomson Reuters GFMS Gold Mine Economics Service, average all-in costs for South Africa were over $1,400 between 2005 and 2013.

Cash cost, introduced in the mid 1990s, is the cost to dig gold bearing rocks out of the ground, process the material and sell the gold. By definition it factors in the basic mining …

The Real Cost of Mining Gold. Since the bull market for gold began in 2003, the world's major gold mining companies have produced tens of millions of ounces of gold and have raised (and written-off) many billions of dollars for capital expenditures and acquisitions. Despite a gold price that appreciated from $344 to $1260 an ounce from 2003 ...

Goldcorp is one of the largest gold mining companies in the world. With 14 operations and development projects, Goldcorp expects to produce 2.3 million ounces this year at a total cash cost …

These numbers report that the cost of extracting an ounce of gold is actually over $1,000 per ounce, well above the aforementioned numbers. And since gold is currently trading at just over $1,200 per ounce, it explains why mining companies have had less-than-stellar profits. Determining the costs of mining …

The bottom line is the gold-mining industry's cost structure is far lower than that $1200 number often thrown around. The world's biggest gold miners are producing gold on an all-in-sustaining ...

Average all-in sustaining costs (AISC) incurred by gold miners rose from $988/oz in Q4 2018 to $1,000/oz in Q1 2019.