With major commodities projects being canned,the likes of China & India have just four options :
a) pay a lot more for gold,,copper,uranium, iron ore,nickel,coal & rare earths in the future.
b) Explore & develope more of their own back home
c) Aggressivley buying and developing overseas assets
in Africa and elsewhere
d) Take over GDA for a measley $1million with no geo political risk.