Metal

Soft gold prices without hard-money rates? Not for long, says the world’s 40-year unbacked money so far… JUST HOW MUCH ABUSE can soft money take? Two-thousand-and-eleven sees a big, but so far little-noted ruby anniversary. Expect to hear lots more about it as August 15th draws near. Because that day will mark 40 years since [...]

Ventana Gold Corp. today announced that it has filed its National Instrument 43-101 technical report in respect of its initial resource estimate and scoping study for the La Bodega project announced on November 8, 2010. Each of the initial resource e…

China isn’t the world’s No.1 gold buyer just yet. But its impact is already showing in how global gold prices move… SURGING DEMAND from China, the world’s second-largest gold buyer, is changing seasonal patterns in gold price trends for investors everywhere. How so? At this current pace, private Chinese demand may overtake India’s by 2014 [...]

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 [...]

This year’s bumper gold-mining deals come as big discoveries have gone missing in gold…
WHATEVER’S LURKING in Andean Resource’s data room – opened to suitors for two years, but now closed after GoldCorp trumped Eldorado’s US$3.3bn bid – it must be pretty spectacular.
Because on published figures, and at current spot prices, GoldCorp’s offer equals 74% [...]

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 [...]

Steven Zoernack, partner at GoldVest, announces revised estimate for price of Palladium. Palladium is one of a group of six metals often referred to as PGM’s, which stands for Platinum Group Metals. This group includes the well-known Platinum and th…