RE:Gold price not being followed by share price. I agree, gold is and always has been very manipulated.
Currently it's the PBoC in Shanghai and US banks currently trying to stabilize their dollar issuing excessive amounts of paper gold, naked short selling along with Institutional purchasing of extremely large amounts of futures with intent to cancel them later...
This BS can only happen short term with gold, Banks only hold a fraction of actual gold compared to what they offer all that need to happen is people demand their physical gold from the banks doing this and the precious metal would go up substantially.
Unfortunately it's a lot of paper gold. Cheers