Shares in Barrick Gold fell hard on Thursday after the company posted earnings that revealed a top and bottom-line miss, lower guidance on gold production and higher cash cost forecasts.

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Skipping straight to the end, money managers would also miss the sharp pullback in gold of the mid-1970s.

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As the hype from the fashionable music press grew, major record labels were desperate not to miss out on the great Glasgow pop gold rush, and despatched armies of talent-spotters to the city.

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Only Wales, once the focus of British gold mining, seems destined to miss out.

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As the gold standard of political homecomings, Miss Bhutto's supporters had her previous return from exile, in 1986, to aim at.

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Miss Freeman was the first aboriginal to win a gold in an individual, as opposed to a team, event.

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World champion heptathlete Jessica Ennis has already confirmed she will miss this year's Games, while Olympic gold medal winning cyclist Victoria Pendleton has said she could also skip Delhi because of scheduling complications.

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