Gold has big year in 2020 and outlook for this year robust. Learn about monetary expansion and gold future prices.Read More
The gold futures price reached US$1,767/ounce this week before retreating, which was the second time it has surpassed US$1,760 in the past two months, marking some of gold's highest levels in several years.Read More
Spain's Andalusia region is known for its seafood, olive oil, and Moorish architecture. It's also known for having one of the world's most prolific mining belts the Iberian Pyrite Belt. One junior explorer has some of the most prospective mining concessions in that belt, with Spain's courts about to give it yet one more and it comes with a big historical resource. Emerita Resources Corp. (EMO:...Read More
A gold mining company enters into two agreements for funding and power, helping to advance and de-risk one of its projects, noted a ROTH Capital Partners report.Seabridge Gold Inc. (SEA:TSX; SA:NYSE.MKT) announced a financing and the procurement of hydro power, and on that news, ROTH Capital Partners increased its target price on the gold mining company to $30 per share from $27, reported analyst...Read More
Copper prices are rising quickly and the number of junior exploration companies seeking to ride the copper price wave grows by the day. One such company has strong land positions in four mining friendly states, an experienced exploration team, an enviable share structure, and is already delivering results for shareholders.More 652,000 shares changed hands on Feb. 22 as Vancouver-based copper and g...Read More
In light of news events of the past week, Michael Ballanger sat in disbelief as gold traded from $1,976.20 to under $1,890 in one single trading session.This week was arguably the most bizarre in all of my 45 years covering capital markets, and I do not write this lightly.It was so much so that I really do not know where to begin this week's missive. I am not going to talk about the geopolitical t...Read More
Streetwise recently sat down with a veteran miner to learn more about his quest for the red metal that is being used for everything from electric vehicles to wireless communication and energy storage systems.The markets may be turbulent right now, but the price of copper has been steadily climbing for the last several years from $2 a pound in early 2016 to $4.49 a pound on Feb. 28.A conductor of h...Read More
Vancouver-based silver and gold co. is exploring a very high-grade and robust silver ore discovery at its Santa Ana project in Colombia.News Flash, March 2: Outcrop Silver & Gold Corp. on Wednesday announced that it will increase its previously announced public offering to $6 million.The offering consists of units of the company at a price of $0.27 each. Units are made up of one common share of t...Read More
Fiji might be known for its bottled water, but gold production keeps the lights on. Fiji is located on an active tectonic boundary between the Pacific and Indo-Australian Plate, known as the "Ring of Fire." This rift hosts several world-class copper-gold porphyry and epithermal gold deposits. One Vancouver-based junior is tracking at least one more.Porgera. Lihir. Vatukoula. These are the names of...Read More
This company has announced more excellent drill results from its project in Mexico, and the Critical Investor believes it is well on its way to prove 1Moz of heap leachable gold.After completing the first 26 holes of its Phase 2 RC drill program at the California target, part of its Cervantes gold-copper project in Sonora, Mexico, on Jan. 26, Aztec Minerals Inc. (AZT:TSX.V; AZZTF:OTCQB) doesn't se...Read More
Currently China has a virtual stranglehold on rare earth elements, but this Canadian company is getting ready to capitalize on the downstream value of processing the REEs it's mining.News Flash, March 3: Defense Metals Corp. on Thursday announced rare earth element (REE) diamond drilling results from two holes totaling 324 meters at its 100%-owned Wicheeda property in British Columbia.The two infi...Read More
A miner reports better earnings than expected and meets its guidance for the third year in a row, Adrian Day of Global Analyst reports.Barrick Gold Corp. (ABX:TSX; GOLD:NYSE) reported better earnings than expected, even though costs were at the higher end of guidance (but still good at $725 per ounce), and capital spending increased. The Nevada and copper mines in particular helped. The company ha...Read More
Wolves in sheep's clothing are currently hard at work undermining the world's clean energy efforts. "Experts" who claim to be in favor of sustainable power are hell-bent on destroying the world's best chance for limitless, carbon-free electricity. Right now, a former leader of the wolf pack is rearing his head into the news cycle. Gregory Jaczko, Obama-era former Nuclear Regulatory Commission (N...Read More
LONDON, 24 January 2022 - Analysis from BullionVault leads the gold-market report posted today on MSN, the news and web portal from global software giant Microsoft.With stock markets tumbling around the world, "Gold is clearly finding favor as portfolio insurance," MSN quotes Adrian Ash, director of research at BullionVault.Read the full story, first published by MarketWatch, at MSN here:Gold set...Read More
I'll never forget the day I got my first car. My uncle worked for the Metropolitan Transit Authority down in New York City, and one of his colleagues had an old clunker he wanted to offload. Since I'd just turned 16 and gotten my license, my uncle kindly thought of me and inquired about the vehicle on my behalf. "It's a 1979 Cadillac Coupe DeVille," he told me over the phone. "It runs, but it nee...Read More
LONDON, 24 January 2022 - Analysis from BullionVault is published today by leading German investment tips website Godmode Trader.Gold priced in Euros has traded higher than current levels on only 49 business days, fewer than for gold priced in other currencies. This shows, says the report, how far the ECB has fallen short of expectations in tackling the current surge in global inflation.Read more...Read More
LONDON, 23 January 2022 - Comment from BullionVault features today in advice from the UK's best-selling Sunday newspaper about new commemorative coins being issued to mark Her Majesty the Queen's platinum jubilee.Whilst potentially appealing to avid collectors, "In gold value terms such coins are not the best investment," the Mail on Sunday quotes Adrian Ash, director of research at BullionVault....Read More
LONDON, 14 January 2022 - Analysis from BullionVault is quoted today in The Daily Telegraph, the UK's conservative-leaning broadsheet newspaper, about the impact of rising inflation on gold investment and prices.With inflation surging near post-WW2 highs in the US, there's "reason to expect the price of gold, the world's oldest inflation hedge, to take off. But it hasn't," says The Telegraph's Que...Read More
LONDON, 12 January 2022 - BullionVault director of research Adrian Ash was a guest this morning on the BBC World Service's flagship Newsday current affairs show."Among all the sources of gold demand," Adrian told BBC radio's global listeners, "investment demand is what drives gold prices, and in 2020 we saw record inflows. That proved a hard act to follow."Looking briefly at the impact on gold of...Read More
LONDON, 10 January 2022 - BullionVault's latest Gold Investor Index data are highlighted today in a report on Germany's solid private gold-investment demand from WirtschaftsWoche, one of the country's leading investment magazines."Inflation rates of over 5% are ringing alarm bells for many Germans, so gold is in demand again as a safe haven," WiWo says."The trading platform BullionVault reports th...Read More
LONDON, 6 January 2022 - Leading German finance magazine Das Investment today reports at length on BullionVault's latest Gold Investor Index data."Private investors in this country were more interested in gold again in December," says the report, noting that the Gold Investor Index Deutschland "climbed to a 3-month high of 57.4 points."Find Das Investment's full report (in German) on BullionVault'...Read More
This past Monday was brutal.The Dow plummeted 1,000 points. The S&P 500 lost nearly 4% of its value, and the Nasdaq lost nearly 5%.The only stocks that were paying off that day were defense stocks and ETFs that short the broader markets.But that's just the nature of the markets.Sometimes you win, sometimes you lose.Although it doesn't always have to be that way.Truth is, there is one investment y...Read More