In my previousarticle, I’ve written about how important US dollar movements arefor future Silver prices. The chances of a significant Silver rally during US dollarstrength is very low; and it is very high during US dollar decline.The structure of the Silver bull marketsince 2001 has a lot in common with that of the 70s bull market. However, oneof the important differences pertains to US doll...Read More
Nervous investors have been pouring into the goldand silver markets over the past two months. Money Metals Exchange is proud to have helped almost 20,000 newcustomers with a precious metals purchase in recent weeks, many of whom cameover from other dealers struggling with inventory shortages and ridiculousdelivery delays.A new wave of investors is getting the message; the FederalReserve will never...Read More
Whenever one hears the words precious metals, goldand silver spring to mind. But this world is much richer, and preciousmetals don’t end with the yellow or white metal. The less well knowncousins, platinum and palladium, can and do send valuable signals too. Beforewe examine silver, let’s take a look at something interesting in palladium. The interesting detail is palladium’s wea...Read More
Just like the precious metals market, black gold ended the previous week with a sizable upswing. The rally continued in the early Monday trading, as crude oil moved decisively above its previous April highs. The breakout above the April highs is a sign of strength, but it’s not been confirmed so far. Crude oil did close the previous week above the highest daily close of April, but it was jus...Read More
By Dave KranzlerThe chart above speaks for itself. You could not find a more bullish chart set-up in the stock market. Note that the HUI/Dow ration bottomed out in late 2019 at the same level where it bottomed in late 2000. Most investors in this sector were not around for the beginning of the precious metals bull market in late 2000. But you can see the big move that started in 2008 - for which...Read More
By Keith Weiner Suppose you wanted to run an enterprise the right way (we know, we know, this is pretty far-out fiction, but bear with us). And, your enterprise has a $1 million dollar piece of equipment that wears out after 10 years. You must set aside $100,000 a year, so that you have $1 million at the end of 10 years when the equipment needs replacing. There's a word, now archaic, to describ...Read More
Craig Hemke, TF MetalsBack in March and April, a chasm opened between the dollar price of spot gold (XAU) and the front month COMEX futures contract. So-called experts reassured us that this was simply due to "logistics" and "gold being in the wrong place". Was this true, or might it have been just another set of apologies from the usual shills?We first wrote about this issue on April 7, and it...Read More
By: Ira EpsteinSilver has spent 5 days above its Bollinger band on the daily chart. I give it at 1% chance..Read More
When this day come, and current spreads may signal that it's coming sooner rather than later, the price discovered for physical gold and silver will... by Craig Hemke via Sprott Money NewsA Crisis of Confidence, Part Two - Craig Hemke (May 19, 2020)Back in March and April, a chasm opened between the dollar price of spot gold (XAU) and the front month COMEX futures contract. So-called experts reas...Read More
Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | Android | Email | Stitcher | RSSJust like we saw in gold in March, unnatural things are happening in silver right now, and widening spreads are just one of the things that have our attention...Craig Hemke of TF Metals Report interviewed by Half Dollar of Silver DoctorsBack in March, we saw some crazy developments in the paper versus...Read More
This episode features the Q&A portion of Cameco's Q1 conference call that took place on May 1, 2020. Cameco president and CEO Tim Gitzel and vice-president and chief financial officer Grant Isaac discuss the impact of the coronavirus on uranium prices, as well as the difficulty the company has in obtaining an accurate uranium spot price, M&A and its ongoing tax dispute with the Canadian Revenu...Read More
RAPAPORT... How we manage disruption and upheaval will always be a defining moment. And the lessons we learn during these challenging times will be vital to our future longevity. What we have experienced as an industry over the last several months is unprecedented. Now that we are slowly emerging from the peak of this crisis, it is time to understand what the COVID-19 pandemic can teach us.On...Read More
RAPAPORT... Swarovski has appointed Giovanna Battaglia Engelbert as its first creative director as part of the company's new business realignment.Engelbert, who has worked as a creative director, international editor and fashion consultant for luxury brands for more than 20 years, was already serving as a creative consultant for Swarovski's business-to-business (B2B) division, the crystal mak...Read More
RAPAPORT... The Indian diamond trade has postponed its one-month freeze on rough imports until June 1 to give companies more time to complete outstanding shipments.The Gem & Jewellery Export Promotion Council (GJEPC) and four other industry bodies had originally called for a pause in imports from May 15. They announced the plan on April 23, allowing around three weeks to import goods they...Read More
(IDEX Online) - First Lady Melania Trump traded up the 15-carat Graff diamond engagement ring Donald gave her, for an even bigger and more expensive rock. The president-to-be gave her a premium D-color, FL, emerald-cut diamond ring, before they wed in 2005. But the former Solvenian model, aged 50, later had the stone replaced with a 25-carat diamond, according to British newspaper The Daily Expres...Read More
Many of Surat's diamond factories will not survive COVID-19, industry sources have warned, as India's went into "Lockdown 4.0". As many as 90 per cent of the city's 5,000 units are small, unregistered and vulnerable. They're also less able to implement any kind of social distancing rules, likely to be implemented when lockdown eases.The nature of cutting and polishing typically...Read More
U.S. equity index futures were higher this morning. S&P 500 futures were up 36 points in pre-opening trade.The Canadian Dollar was virtually unchanged at US 72.00 cents following release of the April Canadian Consumer Price Index at 8:30 AM EDT. Consensus was a drop of 0.6% versus a decline of 0.6% in March. Actual was a drop of 0.7%..Lowe's gained $6.80 to $123.67 after reporting higher than...Read More
- U.S. Gold Corp. will potentially drill up to 38,200 feet (approx. 11,600 m) in up to 22 holes- This program is designed to assess a number of targets that have seen little or no historic drilling- Identification, qualification, and prioritization of these targets were determined by means of detailed surface geology, geochemistry, geophysics, and recent Vulcan 3D modelling using surface and dril...Read More
Mine financier Eric Sprott is increasing his stake in Dolly Varden Silver (TSXV: DV; US-OTC: DOLLF) to 19.9% - buying 7 million common shares of the company in a private placement at a price of 33 ? per share for gross proceeds of $2.3 million."Eric is currently our largest shareholder with around 12.8% holdings in the company," Shawn Khunkhun, Dolly Varden's CEO, said in an interview. "Through th...Read More
Kore Mining (TSXV: KORE; US-OTC: KOREF) has released assay results from the top of hole 20-368 completed at its wholly owned 130-sq.-km FG gold property, 100 km east of Williams Lake. This drill hole returned 76.5 metres of 1.1 grams gold per tonne, which starts at 6 metres and includes seven quartz vein intervals. Assays for the bottom 40 metres, with three additional quartz vein intersections, a...Read More