As the price of senior gold mining stocks and gold bullion have diverged, the enterprise value per ounce of gold reserves held by gold miners is at a historically steep discount to the spot price of gold.

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Being a business enterprise, it would be likely that they will increase the mining production to the utmost, to mitigate the actual tonnage of metals transferred.

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