We had some trouble with the site and stories will be up later today. In the meantime come visit our new links feature – Notable News – or view stories you may not have seen yesterday. The problems were internal and everything is fixed now. Thanks for your support!You don’t have to play by the rules of the corrupt politicians, manipulative media, and brainwashed peers.When you su...Read More

Metso has won a significant deal to support the conversion of the largest open-pit copper mine in the world to a large-scale underground mining operation. The Chuquicamata mine, located 1,650 kilometres north of Santiago, Chile, is owned and operated by Chile's National Copper Corporation, Codelco. Metso's scope in the contract includes the engineering, supply of equipment and materials, and site...Read More

Chile's Codelco, the world's top copper miner, may soon change its focus from cost reductions to output cuts, as the state-owned miner faces what its chief executive called the "worst crisis ever" since created in 1976.Announcing fresh cost-cutting measures to save $242 million this year, CEO Nelson Pizarro said last week (in Spanish) that slumping copper prices, high debt, rising costs and lower...Read More

Hillary Promises a New Government Agency to Open Up Our Borders ... Hillary's open borders policy will reach fruition if she becomes president. In fact, she said ... she is going to open up a new government agency to help illegal aliens and get them on a path to citizenship. She has already said that in her first 100 days, she will go much further than Barack Obama. - Independent SentinelMonths ag...Read More

Gold Losing Appeal for Investors Retreating From Rally ... 'People don't believe in the gold rally,' Holmes says. Investors are growing more skeptical of gold's lasting luster. Hedge funds and other speculators cut their wagers on a bullion rally for the fourth time in five weeks. As traders tire, the metal's 30-day historical volatility has dropped to the lowest since November. Open interest is a...Read More

Hillary Promises a New Government Agency to Open Up Our Borders ... Hillary's open borders policy will reach fruition if she becomes president. In fact, she said ... she is going to open up a new government agency to help illegal aliens and get them on a path to citizenship. She has already said that in her first 100 days, she will go much further than Barack Obama. - Independent SentinelMonths ag...Read More

Gold Losing Appeal for Investors Retreating From Rally ... 'People don't believe in the gold rally,' Holmes says. Investors are growing more skeptical of gold's lasting luster. Hedge funds and other speculators cut their wagers on a bullion rally for the fourth time in five weeks. As traders tire, the metal's 30-day historical volatility has dropped to the lowest since November. Open interest is a...Read More

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The world's number five diversified mining company, Anglo American announced a "radical portfolio restructuring" at the end of last year. The company with roots going back more than a hundred years to South Africa's gold and diamond fields said it would cut around 85,000 employees, almost two-thirds of its workforce.London-listed Anglo also said it's reducing the number of mines it operates from 5...Read More

A fun little tribute to the first season of "Outlander".MUSIC: "Clean Pease Strae", extracted from the soundtrack album of the series.Read More

New York Magazine Makes "The Case Against the Media" Editor Genevieve Smith tells Folio: why now’s the time to dig deep into public distrust ... On July 25, New York magazine featured a cover story that immediately sparked interest among those in media, called "The Case Against the Media. By the Media." – FolioAt the end of July, New York magazine tried to investigate reasons American...Read More

New York Magazine Makes "The Case Against the Media" Editor Genevieve Smith tells Folio: why now’s the time to dig deep into public distrust ... On July 25, New York magazine featured a cover story that immediately sparked interest among those in media, called "The Case Against the Media. By the Media." – FolioAt the end of July, New York magazine tried to investigate reasons American...Read More

World’s Oldest Gold Object May Have Just Been Unearthed in Bulgaria ... A small gold bead shows that Copper Age people in the Balkans were processing gold 6,500 years ago... -SmithsonianThis gold bead further confirms the maturity of private monetary history in our view.Reference.com tells us, HERE: "The existence of gold has been known for over 5,500 years; therefore, the exact locatio...Read More

World’s Oldest Gold Object May Have Just Been Unearthed in Bulgaria ... A small gold bead shows that Copper Age people in the Balkans were processing gold 6,500 years ago... -SmithsonianThis gold bead further confirms the maturity of private monetary history in our view.Reference.com tells us, HERE: "The existence of gold has been known for over 5,500 years; therefore, the exact locatio...Read More

Canadian junior Strongbow Exploration Inc (CVE:SBW) last month closed the acquisition of the South Crofty tin mine in Cornwall and local media reports operations could restart within two years.South Crofty, approximately 390km drive west of London on the Celtic Sea Coast, was the last tin mine in Europe when it closed in 1998. Several companies attempted to revive the mines between 2001 and 20...Read More

Every junior commodity market has its share of pretenders to go along with the contenders as prices and demand move up.In striking contrast to internationally traded bellwether metals such as copper and gold, the market for lithium is murky. Analysts have noted recent variances in spot prices in China ranging to $20,000 a tonne. There's barely a handful of producers and buyers and a popular produc...Read More

A Nobel Alternative to the Current Euro System ... A new book by Nobel prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz suggests that the best way forward for the euro area is a “flexible euro,” a system of different currencies under the same name fluctuating within certain limits. It’s a new, ingenious riff on an idea that keeps popping up in discussions of the currency bloc’s...Read More

OLYMPICS Shaming Could Be the Best Fix for Olympic Doping ... At the Olympics, we're witnessing some serious cases of public shaming. Victorious competitors are publicly ostracizing those who once used performance-enhancing drugs. To take just one example, Australian Mack Horton, gold medalist in the 400-meter freestyle, pointedly refused even to acknowledge China's silver medalist Sun Yang, who h...Read More

A Nobel Alternative to the Current Euro System ... A new book by Nobel prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz suggests that the best way forward for the euro area is a “flexible euro,” a system of different currencies under the same name fluctuating within certain limits. It’s a new, ingenious riff on an idea that keeps popping up in discussions of the currency bloc’s...Read More

OLYMPICS Shaming Could Be the Best Fix for Olympic Doping ... At the Olympics, we're witnessing some serious cases of public shaming. Victorious competitors are publicly ostracizing those who once used performance-enhancing drugs. To take just one example, Australian Mack Horton, gold medalist in the 400-meter freestyle, pointedly refused even to acknowledge China's silver medalist Sun Yang, who h...Read More