MELBOURNE: A drought in parts of Australia that’s delivered record low rainfall is posing potential risks to output at key gold mines in the world’s second-largest producer.
Rainfall in New South Wales state has been at one-in-100 year lows for the past two years, Newcrest Mining Ltd said yesterday, flagging that production at its flagship Cadia operation could be impacted by the end of this year if the conditions persist.
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