Top Miners: As Prices Rose in 2017, Production Fell but Beat Guidance: Last year, rising prices enabled the world's top gold producers to increase revenues or cash flow as total gold output dipped again.

The article presents ratings of top mining companies based on revenues or cash flow as of May 2018. Barrick Gold reported net earnings of $1.4 billion in 2017. Newmont posted an adjusted net income of $780 million, and reported an 87 percent increase in what it calls free cash flow. In 2017, AngloGold Ashanti raised gold income by more than $270 million to almost $4.4 billion