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Resolute Mining pays dividends in gold

The resurgent gold miner has hatched a novel plan for its payouts, in partnership with The Perth Mint.

The strong gold price has helped drive a sharp recovery in Resolute’s fortunes this year. Picture: Akos Stiller/Bloomberg.
The strong gold price has helped drive a sharp recovery in Resolute’s fortunes this year. Picture: Akos Stiller/Bloomberg.

It’s the ultimate golden handshake: resurgent gold miner Resolute Mining has hatched a novel plan that will allow its shareholders to receive their dividends in the form of actual gold.

Resolute, which mines gold in Africa and Queensland, announced this morning that investors with 5,000 Resolute shares or more can elect to be paid their dividend in gold through The Perth Mint.

Resolute managing director John Welborn described the policy as “unique”.

“I am particularly proud of this new innovative dividend policy which provides a unique opportunity for our shareholders, if they wish, to receive their dividend payments in gold,” he said in a statement.

“Our partnership with The Perth Mint is a perfect opportunity for investors who seek direct exposure to our underlying commodity.”

The strong gold price has helped drive a sharp recovery in Resolute’s fortunes this year, with the company earlier this month announcing a record profit of $213 million.

Its shares have climbed from 24c in January to $1.82 today, taking its market capitalisation past $1.1 billion.

Paul Garvey
Paul GarveySenior Reporter

Paul Garvey is an award-winning journalist with more than two decades' experience in newsrooms around Australia and the world. He is currently the senior reporter in The Australian’s WA bureau, covering politics, courts, billionaires and everything in between. He has previously written for The Wall Street Journal in New York, The Australian Financial Review in Melbourne, and for The Australian from Hong Kong before returning to his native Perth. He was the WA Journalist of the Year in 2024 and is a two-time winner of The Beck Prize for political journalism.

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