• Shares of US-listed gold miners fall premarket as bullion prices slip

• Spot gold down 3.2% at $4,149.89 per ounce, hitting its lowest since August 5

• Higher oil prices stoke inflation fears and strengthen expectations for further Fed rate hikes [GOL/]

• Top miners Newmont and Barrick Mining down 3.4% and 3.5%, respectively

• US-listed shares of South African miners AngloGold Ashanti , Harmony Gold and Sibanye Stillwater drop between 6% and 5% each

• US-listed shares of Canadian miner Kinross Gold

down 4.7%

(Reporting by Kanishka Ajmera in Bengaluru) ((mail to: ))