NEW YORK, December 29, 2025, 04:33 ET — Premarket
- Aura Minerals shares last closed up 4.4% at $54.06, within $0.24 of a 52-week high.
- Gold slipped 1.7% early Monday as investors took profits after a strong 2025 run, a key macro cue for miners.
- Investors are watching U.S. data and the Fed’s December meeting minutes this week for signals on rates and the dollar.
Aura Minerals Inc shares last closed up 4.4% at $54.06, ending Friday within $0.24 of their 52-week high, as the gold miner tracked strength across precious metals into year-end.
The setup matters because moves in bullion can quickly reshape revenue expectations for gold producers, and the sector has been sensitive to shifts in rate-cut bets and geopolitical risk.
Gold fell 1.7% to $4,455.34 an ounce early Monday after profit-taking and easing geopolitical tensions, Reuters reported, with silver also dropping sharply.
Aura operates gold and base-metals assets across the Americas, including mines in Honduras, Brazil and Mexico, and it has been expanding its portfolio and project pipeline.
Earlier this month, Aura said it upgraded its production growth outlook to over 600,000 gold-equivalent ounces (GEO) per year from 450,000. “I am glad to upgrade our production growth outlook to over 600,000 GEO per year, up from the former projection of 450,000 GEO,” CEO Rodrigo Barbosa said. GlobeNewswire
Gold-equivalent ounces are a standard mining metric that converts output of other metals into a gold benchmark, allowing investors to compare total production on a single scale.
Aura said the higher potential output would be driven by ramp-up at Borborema, integration and turnaround work at Mineração Serra Grande, and planned construction and ramp-up at the Era Dorada and Matupá projects, among other expansion scenarios.
The company closed its acquisition of Mineração Serra Grande in Brazil from AngloGold Ashanti earlier this month, paying $72.8 million in upfront cash on an agreed enterprise value of $76 million and agreeing to deferred payments tied to a 3% net smelter returns participation.
A net smelter returns royalty is a percentage skimmed from metal sales after standard processing costs, reducing the cash a mine operator keeps from each ounce sold.
Chart watchers have focused on whether Aura can take out its $54.30 52-week high, with Barchart-calculated resistance near $54.98 and first support around $52.47.
Macro events could set the tone into the New Year: investors are due pending home sales data on Monday and minutes from the Federal Reserve’s December meeting on Tuesday, both of which can move Treasury yields and the dollar — and, by extension, bullion.
U.S. stock markets are closed Thursday for New Year’s Day, which can thin liquidity and amplify moves in commodity-linked shares.
The Fed’s next policy meeting is scheduled for Jan. 27-28, according to the central bank’s calendar, keeping rate expectations in focus as 2026 trading gets underway.
