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VANCOUVER, British Columbia, Sept. 03, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — USA News Group News Commentary – Gold crossed US$5,000 an ounce for the first time in January 2026 and touched an intraday record above US$5,500 before retreating below US$4,000 by late June. Goldman Sachs Research now forecasts roughly US$4,900 by year end, driven less by speculative positioning than by central banks steadily diversifying reserves. At those prices almost any credible ounce in the ground is economic. What the price does not do is shorten the years between a permit and a plant, and that gap has quietly become the industry’s real constraint.
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Companies mentioned in today’s commentary include: Lake Victoria Gold Ltd. (OTCQB: LVGLF) (TSXV: LVG) (FSE: E1K), Harmony Gold Mining Company Limited (NYSE: HMY), Gold Fields Limited (NYSE: GFI), Caledonia Mining Corporation Plc (NYSE American: CMCL), and Galiano Gold Inc. (NYSE American: GAU).
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Ground is being moved, not just planned. Lake Victoria Gold has completed initial spot repairs across 14 kilometres of the access road serving its wholly owned Imwelo Gold Project in Tanzania, and clearing, stripping and levelling are advancing at the pit, tailings storage facility, waste rock dump and dam sites.
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A build-once camp, not a temporary one. The construction camp is substantially complete, with electrical installation, drainage, bathrooms and generator shelter finished and the water system pressure-tested. It is the first phase of the permanent operations camp, so the infrastructure stays in service rather than being replaced later.
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Timed against the weather, not the calendar. Road repairs were prioritised on the worst-affected sections ahead of a wet season that typically begins in late October or November, using laterite sourced from within the mining licence itself.
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Local delivery, coordinated with the roads agency. The programme is being executed by a local Tanzanian contractor in coordination with the Tanzania Rural and Urban Roads Agency, and the repaired road also serves outlying villages rather than the project alone.
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Fully permitted, but not yet a mine. Imwelo has been the subject of JORC-compliant PEA, PFS and updated PFS work, but those studies are not current under NI 43-101. No feasibility study establishing mineral reserves has been completed, and any production decision would not be based on one.
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The Constraint Is No Longer Money
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For most of the last decade the argument against development-stage gold companies was arithmetic. Grades were modest, capital costs were rising, and the metal was not expensive enough to make marginal deposits work. That argument has largely collapsed. At the prices seen through 2026, the economics of a great many previously marginal projects have been rewritten.
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What replaced it is a scheduling problem. Morgan Stanley Research has made the point that a capital-investment super-cycle among gold producers is unlikely, because permitting and regulatory hurdles constrain how quickly new capacity can be brought forward. The metal can reprice overnight. An environmental approval cannot. A mining licence cannot. A road that floods in November cannot be graded in December.