PRECIOUS METALS

Welborn says Resolute back on course

After spending too much time hacking around in the long grass over the past year, John Welborn is hopeful Resolute can regain more of the ground lost to gold-sector peers after the sulphide plant shutdown at its cornerstone Syama mine in Mali last October. Renewed market recognition of Resolute’s long game, plus the predictability Mako in eastern Senegal has added, are firing Welborn’s optimism.