Apparently, the answer to the question in the headline has been widely explored by scientists.What was recently discovered, though, was that a boost of vitamin C can turn small gold nanorods into fine gold nanowires."There's no novelty per se in using vitamin C to make gold nanostructures because there are many previous examples," said chemist Eugene Zubarev from Rice University in Texas. "But the...Read More

For the second year in a row, mineral and coal exploration expenditure in British Columbia increased in 2018.This is according to the British Columbia Mineral and Coal Exploration Survey carried out by the provincial Ministry of Energy, Mines and Petroleum Resources, the Association for Mineral Exploration and Ernst & Young.After collecting insights from nearly 300 exploration projects across BC,...Read More

Chris VermeulenPosted Mar 3, 2019The continued rally in Palladium has prompted speculation that Platinum, Gold, and Silver will follow this trend upwards with renewed buying pressure.The one thing that many people are not considering is that Palladium is an industrial use component for many manufacturing sectors – specifically the automotive sector.As traders, we must understand that a rise...Read More

"The monetary authorities running the paper-money schemes of the present are anxious to forestall significant rises in the paper price of gold, because such rises would diminish confidence in the lasting value of the paper money in use today." - Hugo Salinas PriceThe price of gold was victimized by yet another raid on the Comex paper gold market on Friday. The pattern has been repetitive over the...Read More

Here are five Fastmarkets MB stories you might have missed on Friday March 1 that are worth another look.Copper-starved London Metal Exchange warehouses could receive a long-awaited influx of metal from an unexpected source, Fastmarkets has learned. The LME has released its pricing procedures and methodologies for the scheduled release of its cash-settled futures contracts on March 11, h...Read More

Mar. 1st, 2019(S14-E685)Featured GuestsProf. Burton Malkiel& Bill MurphyPlease Listen HereFormer NFL player Bill Murphy of GATA.org returns with commentary on the stunning advance in palladium. The former industrial metal has an inversion of the typical market dynamics, eclipsing the precious metals king. The host proposes a chief factor sending Palladium higher while gold and platinum remai...Read More

Gold futures dropped below the key $1,300 mark on Friday to settle at their lowest in a month and half, down over 2% from a week ago-the sharpest weekly fall since August. An overall risk-on sentiment, which boosted U.S. and global stocks, as well as strength in the U.S. dollar worked to dull demand for the precious metal. The precious metal only managed to briefly pare some of its earlier losses...Read More

Macquarie Capital has been engaged to explore, in conjunction with BGC management, a number of options for BGC Contracting including a possible sale, divestment of parts of the business and/orRead More

Steinmetz has been the focus of corruption investigations after his company, where he is officially a consultant, was handed half of Rio Tinto's stake in the massive iron ore project in 2008 by former dictator Lansana Conté.Current president Alpha Conde stripped these rights from Beny Steinmetz Group Resources (BSGR) after it had sold half of the project to Vale for US$2.5 billion (although...Read More

Cobalt trade log including business, bids and offers reported to Fastmarkets. Unless otherwise stated, all prices are per lb on an in-warehouse basis. Delivered prices are netted back. Fastmarkets prices Click here for Fastmarkets' price assessment for standard-grade cobalt, in-warehouse, $ per lb Click here for Fastmarkets' price assessment for alloy-grade cobalt, in-warehouse, $ per lb In light...Read More

Gold prices have pulled back from a 10-month high in recent sessions, leaving investors wondering why the many geopolitical and economic issues plaguing the market haven't been able to fully support the metal's haven appeal. Gold notched that multimonth peak just over a week ago on the back of uncertainty linked to Brexit, the U.S.-China trade dispute, and global economic growth. But prices on Thu...Read More

Today, Greg Rickford, Minister of Energy, Northern Development and Mines, and Bronwyn Eyre, Saskatchewan's Minister of Energy and Resources, have issued the following statement on the release of the Canadian Minerals and Metals Plan:"The federal government has released its Canadian Minerals and Metals Plan (CMMP) to identify opportunities for the Canadian mining industry, with the goal of position...Read More

Cobalt trade log including business, bids and offers reported to Fastmarkets. Unless otherwise stated, all prices are per lb on an in-warehouse basis. Delivered prices are netted back. Fastmarkets prices Click here for Fastmarkets' price assessment for standard-grade cobalt, in-warehouse, $ per lb Click here for Fastmarkets' price assessment for alloy-grade cobalt, in-warehouse, $ per lb In light...Read More

In his March 1st interview with Jim Goddard, Bob Hoye from ChartsandMarkets.com tackles the question whether there is a PDAC curse on the share prices of mining stocks. The idea being that mining stocks often run up and peak going into the large convention of mining prospectors, promoters and investors that traditionally takes place in the first week of March in Toronto every year. This year it...Read More

By: Gary TanashianThe number in the title is in honor of the boldest forecast burped up by the gold community in February as the metal (and the miners) jerked upward and jerked the holdout would-be enthusiasts into the market. It was included in the anonymous (but real) quotes from a cautionary post last week on the Gold Bull Horns.We also used these quotes in an NFTRH update in order to tr...Read More

Mar. 1st, 2019(S14-E685)Featured GuestsProf. Burton Malkiel& Bill MurphyPlease Listen HereFormer NFL player Bill Murphy of GATA.org returns with commentary on the stunning advance in palladium. The former industrial metal has an inversion of the typical market dynamics, eclipsing the precious metals king. The host proposes a chief factor sending Palladium higher while gold and platinum remai...Read More

By: Marin KatusaIn 2015, a 16-year-old student from Jiangsu, China, tried to board a train.She couldn't even purchase a ticket.The student, Zhong Pei, tried enrolling in classes at her university. But she was not allowed to do that either. Zhong had committed a serious crime: She was guilty of being related to someone else.Her father had killed two people and died in a car accident. So the Chi...Read More

By: SRSrocco If you're puzzled by the magnitude of the stock market correction since late December, you can thank the central banks for the rally. Yes, that's correct... after the Dow Jones suffered the worst Christmas Eve trading day ever, the massive central bank monetary liquidity helped push the index up 20% from its low over the next two months. Of course, the markets were due for a r...Read More

Infested with CrawdadsNot ApplaudingSteadily More Dovish#3 MandatePuerto Rico, Cleveland, New York, Cleveland, Austin, and DallasIn an ideal world, we wouldn't have to read the Federal Reserve's rabbit entrails to discern the economy. But Since the Fed exists in the real world, and its decisions matter, we have to pay attention.Just so new and perhaps even old readers know my views on the Fed: I...Read More

Read the latest articles at Peak Prosperity: https://www.peakprosperity.com/Christopher Martenson is a former American biochemical scientist. Currently he is a writer and trend forecaster interested in macro trends regarding the economy, energy composition and environment. He is the founder of PeakProsperity.com. As one of the early econobloggers who forecasted the housing market collapse and stoc...Read More