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Your editor is so consumed by trying to finish off the September issue of Australian Small-Cap Investigator that our pea-sized brain is incapable of thinking about anything else this morning.
So instead we’ll hand the reins over to our old pal, Diggers & Drillers editor, Dr. Alex Cowie.

But before I do that, you’ll recall that we [...]

If you’re going to be invested in a single metal this decade, my advice is to back copper. Specifically – companies that are sitting on long-life, high-quality copper resources.
He dropped out of the spot light for a while there, but ‘Doctor Copper’ is making some big moves again. The copper price fell nearly 25% earlier [...]

Oh thank goodness for political stability now that Indecision 2010 has been resolved:
“Swan firm on mining tax… Independents, Greens want change” – Australian Financial Review
“The first cracks have appeared in the Gillard government’s alliance with the crossbench MP’s, with the Greens signalling they may side with the Coalition on some issues…” – The Age

So yet [...]

What jewelry-selling Western consumers have discovered about China’s gold buying…
WHATEVER the reasons for China’s massive household savings rate (Western economists blame the lack of social security, so you can guess their cure), the World Gold Council’s Gold Demand Trends today showed private consumers putting ever-more money into physical gold.

Compared to household savings, in fact, revised [...]

The US markets had a smack in the face when July’s Job report came out on Friday night.
Economists / forecasters / tea-leaf-readers had been expecting a net loss of 55,000 odd jobs. The actual figure came in at more like 131,000 jobs lost.
The fine print contained more bad news, including a big fall [...]

“And like that… he’s gone.”
That was Kevin Spacey’s line at the end of The Usual Suspects.
Yesterday’s vote in the Victoria State Parliament just eliminated the whole argument for a housing shortage. And so to paraphrase Mr. Spacey, “And like that… it’s gone.”
Not that there ever was a housing shortage. But thanks to the [...]

In a recent article, we showed you how silver had become systematically de-monetised by governments over the past 150 years or so. These actions have seen the gold/silver ratio move from its long term historical average of around 15:1 to 66:1 today. In other words, one ounce of gold is now equivalent to 66 ounces [...]

The markets are bouncing. Quick get on board before you miss the train. It’s all up from here.
A 250 point rally in a week from very oversold levels is enough to get anyone’s heart racing. Is this the low of the pullback? Is the uptrend from March 2009 still intact [...]