Goldcorp (TSE:G) (NYSE:GG) reported a more than 35 per cent drop in first quarter net profit Thursday, hurt by lower gold prices and higher costs, which offset a boost in output of the yellow metal, though the company still stood by its full year guidance. 

Shares of Goldcorp (TSE:G) (NYSE:GG) fell premarket Friday, a day after the company reported a higher fourth quarter net profit but revenues slipped as production costs also increased and gold sales volumes declined. 

Major gold producer Goldcorp (NYSE:GG) (TSE:G) saw its shares sink early Wednesday, a day after lowering its fiscal 2012 production and cash cost forecast, a result of operational problems at two of its biggest mines.

Goldcorp (TSE:G)(NYSE:GG) said Monday that it expects to produce 2.6 million ounces of gold in 2012, about four percent more than 2011, as output from its Pueblo Viejo joint venture in the Dominican Republic comes on stream.

Goldcorp`s friendly takeover of Andean Resources has intensified interest in Santa Cruz Province, often referred to as the Nevada of Argentina for its pro-mining environment and excellent potential for new discoveries.

Amid declining gold prices, several miners are struggling to keep costs down, but Sacre-Coeur Minerals (CVE:SCM) (OTC:SCRMF) is not one of them. The company boasts all-in cash production costs of less than $500 an ounce at its alluvial/elluvial operations in Guyana. 

Sunridge Gold Corp. (CVE:SGC)(OTCQX:SGCNF) has done exactly what it set out to do last year in releasing a feasibility study for its Asmara project in Eritrea that minimizes the capital exposure in a challenging time for Canadian juniors, with the company now having a plan to start initial production almost one year earlier than the preliminary report. 

Jennings Capital analyst Dan Hrushewsky has highlighted what he called Asanko Gold's (TSE:AKG) "good project economics" at the Esaase gold project in Ghana, saying the company ranks first of all Canadian gold companies on its radar in terms of cash as a percentage of market cap. 

Gold, silver and antimony miner Mandalay Resources (TSE:MND) has issued a strong message of intent with a promise to pay 6% of net future revenues in dividends. Mandalay announced a dividend for the quarter of C$0.769 in line with this new policy.

Kirkland Lake Gold (TSE:KGI)(AIM:KGI) shares rallied after the company revealed impressive operational results for its fiscal fourth quarter, which analysts say mark a "stellar end" to a year in which the company regained mining access to the higher grade ores at its Macassa mine. Shares jumped 10 percent in afternoon trading in Toronto.