LONDON, 28 July 2022 - Private investors in gold expect the precious metal to rise into the end of 2022 says German financial advisor and asset manager magazine AssCompact today, reporting the latest customer survey from BullionVault.With the average forecast putting the gold price at $1962 per ounce by New Year's Eve, "That would be a new record" for the annual finish, says AssCompact."Other prec...Read More
Odds are bullion dealers going to have a tough time keeping any silver in stock...by David Morgan of The Morgan ReportIs A Silver Squeeze Ahead?"Temporarily out of stock." - That's the message most hopeful physical silver buyers may be getting soon. Given the current price of silver, odds are bullion dealers going to have a tough time keeping any silver in stock.Watch this video on The NEXT Big SI...Read More
Drilling highlights included 265.75m grading 2.44 g/t gold equivalent and 326.05m grading 1.07g/t.Read More
Look beyond market approach to project valuations: van ZylLeadershipNorth Gilbey's a Gascoyne game-changerSPONSOREDgascoyne resources ltdSun shines on Saturn MetalsSPONSOREDsaturn metalsMining Journal and MiningNews.Net Critical Minerals reportSPONSOREDFormer BHP iron ore boss Jimmy Wilson started yesterday as executive director for 18 months after which he will move to a non-executive directo...Read More
The expected capital costs were contained in a definitive feasibility study (DFS) case released by the firm that would represent a 140% throughput increase from a Stage 2A expansion at the mine inRead More
North Gilbey's a Gascoyne game-changerSPONSOREDgascoyne resources ltdSun shines on Saturn MetalsSPONSOREDsaturn metalsMining Journal and MiningNews.Net Critical Minerals reportSPONSOREDChina is the world's largest producer of hydrogen, but virtually all of the 33Mt it produces every year is made using coal and natural gas or comes as an industrial byproduct.Read More
North Gilbey's a Gascoyne game-changerSPONSOREDgascoyne resources ltdMining Journal and MiningNews.Net Critical Minerals reportSPONSOREDSun shines on Saturn MetalsSPONSOREDsaturn metalsEven before Russia's invasion of Ukraine, onshoring was gathering momentum, a trend viewed by many as shorthand for deglobalisation.Read More
RAPAPORT... Petra Diamonds saw a rise in earnings and announced a return to dividend payments following strong rough demand during the past fiscal year.Revenue jumped 44% to $585.2 million for the 12 months ending June 30, the miner reported Tuesday. Profit before tax and one-off extraordinary charges came to $141.9 million, compared with a loss of $18.3 million a year earlier. Net profit fel...Read More
RAPAPORT... The US jewelry industry is on track to experience modest growth this holiday season as strong economic trends are likely to offset inflationary pressure, according to Mastercard SpendingPulse.Jewelry sales will rise 2.2% year on year for the period from November 1 to December 24, the data provider predicted Monday. That would equate to a 33% increase compared to 2019, Mastercard f...Read More
(IDEX Online) - Police shot and injured a man suspected of stabbing a jewelry sales associate with a kitchen knife in Atlanta, Georgia, USA.They named him as Jose Reyes-Serrato, 27, and say the employee, who worked at Macy's department store, at the Mall of Georgia, as 55-year-old David Walker.Both men have been recovering in hospital after the incident and are expected to survive.Local polic...Read More
(IDEX Online) - Petra Diamonds today announced increased sales of $102.9m at its latest rough tender, and revealed it would reinstate dividends to shareholders on the back of a revenue hike.The UK-based miner said it sold 520,011 carats at its first tender of FY2023, down nine per cent on the previous tender in June. But an 11 per cent in prices pushed overall revenue up from $93m.Average price pe...Read More
(IDEX Online) - British actress Lily James fronts a new campaign for the Natural Diamond Council, promoting the beauty of natural diamonds.The 33-year-old Emmy-nominated star, known for roles in Pam and Tommy and Downton Abbey, has been appointed by as the council's global ambassador."It has been illuminating to discover the positive impact of the natural diamond industry across the globe and...Read More
(IDEX Online) - Sixteen Argyle Pinks are being offered for sale in what is described as a "once-in-a-lifetime opportunity" for collectors.Leibish is hosting a Festival of Argyle Tender Pink Diamonds at its offices in New York until 19 September.It describes the event as "the largest Tender stone collection in the world".A 1.28 carat, Fancy Deep Purplish Pink, 2PP, Oval shape Diamond with I1 clarit...Read More
U.S. equity index futures were lower this morning. S&P 500 futures were down 54 points in pre-opening trade.Index futures moved sharply lower following release of the U.S. August Consumer Price Index at 8:30 AM EDT. Consensus was a slip of 0.1% versus unchanged in July. Actual was an increase of 0.1%. On a year-over-year basis, August CPI was expected to increase 8.1% versus a gain of 8.5% in...Read More
There are 435 seats in the House of Representatives (not counting nonvoting seats for D.C. and some U.S. possessions) and all of them are up for election in November. Right now, the Democrats control the House with 219 Democrats versus 211 Republicans (there are five vacancies).It takes 218 votes to control the House. This means if the Republicans hold the seats they have and pick up just seven se...Read More
Today we trample sacred ground... trumpet a message of heresy... and offend the pieties. For we challenge the cherished and soothing assumptions of democracy.In 2001, academic Hans-Hermann Hoppe scribbled a book bearing the soaring title Democracy: The God That Failed. Hoppe's work is a dart leveled against that holiest of secular divinities.Hoppe's primary tort against democracy?It wastes. It exh...Read More
"You could call that stagflation."Those are the words of the once-revered Ben Bernanke, giving his outlook for the near-term future of the American and world economies. Strange, isn't it, how the Fed's ex-chairman tends to be more honest with us than the present one.After Alan Greenspan left the position, he wrote a pretty good book decrying the whole existence of the fiat money regime, while Bern...Read More
Just when you think the anti-Russian sanctions policy can’t get any dumber, it does. Here's the latest:The EU and U.S. have announced a new plan to cap the price of Russian oil by applying pressure through the insurance industry. The plan says that Lloyd's of London and other insurance channels will not insure Russian tankers exporting oil unless the price is capped as demanded by the West.S...Read More
Spread the loveQUESTION: I'm a subscriber and I read you every day. Your weekend article 9/10/22 that a gold standard will not work as gold fluctuates just as Fiat currencies do. Then what in your opinion is the proper currency model, or can we just simply keep printing dollars endlessly because for now, we're the least dirty of all the dirty shirts? If you've done an article or book on this ple...Read More
The classic movie Gold Diggers of 1933 featured a song-and-dance number called "Remember My Forgotten Man."The movie was ostensibly about how farm girls who moved to the city and faced economic depression would do whatever it took to get along. That was the theme of the opening song, "We're in the Money," the lyrics of which are truly hilarious once you understand the point.But the deeper theme wa...Read More