AngloGold Ashanti, the world's third-biggest bullion producer, posted a six-fold increase in quarterly earnings on Monday, amid difficult recovery from last year's industrial unrest. The company reported adjusted headline earnings of $113 million in the first quarter of 2013, helped by a slowdown in labour unrest. Earnings rose from $19 million in the last quarter of 2012 and gold production rose to 899,000 ounces from 859,000. The company forecasts second-quarter production at between 900,000 and 950,000 ounces.

HONG KONG - SouthGobi Resources Ltd. (TSX:SGQ) says it generated US$3.3 million of revenue in the first quarter, a period when most of the Canadian company's coal mining activities in Mongolia were shut down. The Vancouver-based company's revenue was down from US$40.1 million a year earlier, before the curtailment began in June 2012. SouthGobi's net loss in the three months ended March 31, reported in U.S. currency, was $24.9 million, or 14 cents per share. On an adjusted basis, the loss was $11.6 million.

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TORONTO - Iamgold Corp. (TSX:IMG) says its profits fell 91 per cent in the first quarter as the company moved forward with its cost cutting plan while gold prices weakened. The Toronto-based gold miner said net earnings weakened to US$10.9 million, or three cents per share, from $119.2 million or 22 cents per share a year earlier. Adjusted earnings, a better indication of Iamgold's underlying performance, dropped to $57.7 million or 15 cents per share, a penny above the expectations of analysts polled by Thomson Reuters.