(Alliance News) - Resolute Mining Ltd shares were suspended from trading in Sydney on Thursday, with its chief executive officer still detained in Mali over a tax dispute with the government. Resolute Mining's stock fell 20% to 18.35 pence on Thursday in London, and has lost 46% over the last five days.

Resolute Mining's shares fell by 32% on Monday, their worst trading day in 16 years, after top executives at the Australian gold mining company were detained as part of a crackdown on foreign firms in Mali.

Resolute Mining suspended trading after Mali demanded the Australian gold miner pay about $160-million to resolve a tax dispute that’s seen its chief executive officer detained. The company’s shares in Sydney were suspended pending an announcement,

Shares of Australian gold miner Resolute Mining plunged more than 30 per cent on Monday after the company said its chief executive Terence Holohan and two other employees had been detained in Mali. The Resolute executives were in the capital Bamako to discuss with officials “open claims made against Resolute” that the group “maintains are unsubstantiated”,

Resolute Mining's shares fell by 32% on Monday, their worst trading day in 16 years, after top executives at the Australian gold mining company were detained as part of a crackdown on foreign firms in Mali.

Resolute Mining (OTCPK:RMGGF) (OTCPK:RMGGY) -32% in Australian trading Monday, the most in 16 years, after three of its employees including CEO Terence Holohan were arrested by government officials in Mali.