(Updates)
• Shares of gold miners down, tracking a fall in prices of bullion [GOL/]
• Spot gold down 0.9% to $2,666.36/ounce, after dropping as low as 1% earlier in the session
• Gold prices dipped as the U.S. dollar soared to an over two-year high after a robust jobs report last week cemented expectations the Federal Reserve will proceed with caution with cutting interest rates this year
• Top miner Barrick Gold down 1.4%
• U.S.-listed shares of South African miners AngloGold Ashanti and Sibanye Stillwater each down 1%
• Shares of Canadian miners Agnico Eagle Mines and Kinross Gold down 2.4% and 3.3%, respectively
• Mali's government initiates provisional order to seize
gold stocks at Barrick Gold's Loulo-Gounkoto site; company warns
it may have to suspend operations at the complex
(Reporting by Pooja Menon in Bengaluru)