Full Article: The New Safe Haven: Gold Stocks!By: Stewart Thomson1. The US stock market continues to implode. At the same time, precious metals, bitcoin, and the Indian stock market are acting as superb safe havens.2. Please click here now. Double-click to enlarge this great short term gold chart.Full Article: The New Safe Haven: Gold Stocks!By: Stewart ThomsonDisclaimer (C) 2010 Junior Gold Re...Read More

Peter KrauthSilver is a particular kind of precious metal.Unlike gold, nearly 60% of silver demand comes from industry. That's because silver has great physical properties, while being much cheaper per ounce than gold.Often referred to as the "poor man's gold," silver has outstanding characteristics that make it valuable, and even indispensable, to industry and beyond.That's why I remain bullish i...Read More

The exploration camp at the Christie Lake uranium property. (Image: UEX Corp.)SASKATCHEWAN - UEX Corporation has released the maiden resource estimate for its 60% owned Christie Lake uranium joint venture. JCU (Canada) Exploration Co. is the 40% owner of the project located 9 km northeast of and along strike of the McArthur River uranium mine in the Athabasca Basin.The project is still in the earl...Read More

RAPAPORT... HRD Antwerp will open a diamond-jewelry grading laboratoryin Dubai's Almas Tower through a partnership with retailer Stargems Group. The center, which will be HRD's first such lab in the MiddleEast, will be located within the Dubai Multi Commodities Centre (DMCC) FreeZone, the gemological group said Wednesday. HRD and Stargems signed a memorandum of understanding inwhich the lab...Read More

RAPAPORT... Global jewelry sales increased 4% in the third quarter, drivenby growth in North America, according to market research by Alrosa. Sales in North America rose 4% despite concerns over theUS-China trade war, the Russian miner said Wednesday. Revenue in the Asia-Pacific region, including India andsoutheast Asia, rose 3% amid a continued expansion of national retailers acrossmainland...Read More

RAPAPORT... Gem Diamonds has recovered two large diamonds within a 24-hour period at its Let??eng mine in Lesotho, the company said Wednesday. The high-quality stones are white, type IIa diamonds weighing 101 carats and 71 carats, it added. The 101-carat stone is the 14th diamond over 100 carats the miner has found this year, a record for the company. Last year, Gem Diamonds unearthed eight...Read More

RAPAPORT... Baselworld and Salon International de la Haute Horlogerie inGeneva (SIHH) will take place back-to-back from 2020 in an attempt by theirorganizers to reinvigorate interest in the shows. SIHH, which is usually a January event, will instead runfrom April 26 to 29 in Geneva, while Baselworld will begin immediatelyafterward, from April 30 to May 5. That show is usually scheduled for Ma...Read More

RAPAPORT... De Beers has expanded its blockchain initiative into theAsian retail sector by signing up Chow Tai Fook, the largest diamond jeweler inthe region. Chow Tai Fook's participation will enable De Beers to extendthe reach of the Tracr diamond-tracking program into greater China and thewider Asian market, the companies said Wednesday. "Authenticity, provenance and traceability are increasin...Read More

(IDEX Online) - HRD Antwerp has signed a partnership with Dubai-based jewelry retailer Stargems to certify its jewelry inventory through the establishment of a diamond jewelry grading lab.   The cooperation agreement will ensure the transparency and authenticity of each jewelry piece, the sides said in a statement.   As a result of the collaboration, HRD Antwerp will open its first diam...Read More

(IDEX Online) - Gem Diamonds Limited has announced the recovery of high quality 101 carat and 71 carat white Type IIa diamonds.   They were recovered within a 24-hour period at the Let??eng mine in Lesotho, the highest dollar per carat kimberlite diamond mine in the world, the miner said.   The recovery of the 101-carat diamond brings the total recoveries at Let??eng during 2018 to a re...Read More

(IDEX Online) - The Chow Tai Fook Jewellery Group is joining the Tracr?,,? end-to-end diamond industry blockchain traceability platform being developed by the De Beers Group in collaboration with key industry stakeholders.   Chow Tai Fook joins a range of other leading businesses from across the diamond value chain in piloting the next generation asset-tracking platform powered by blockchain...Read More

U.S. equity index futures were higher this morning. S&P 500 futures were up 14 points in pre-opening trade. Futures responded to overnight news that the U.S and China will resume trade negotiations in early January. Investors are waiting for news from the FOMC meeting to be released at 2:00 PM EST. Consensus calls for a 0.25% increase in the Fed Fund rate to 2.50%. The Canadian Dollar added 0....Read More

Mr. Jerome Powell entered this day hung from the hooks of a mighty dilemma.Should he deliver another rate hike... or hold steady?In two opposite directions he was yanked plenty hard…His inner lights, his inner mother-in-law, urged him to hike.GDP expanded an average 3.85% the two most recent quarters, they reminded him.Unemployment - at 3.7% - plumbs depths unseen in a half-century. Wages ar...Read More

Our country is facing a retirement crisis. The unfunded liabilities of Social Security and Medicare coupled with the low savings rates and decimated 401(k) large parts of the baby boomer generation not having enough money to retire.Retirement FundsUnfortunately, the retirement funds of many boomers are either minimal or nonexistent. The statistics are somewhat grim: 41% of baby boomers between the...Read More

It’s been a long December and there’s reason to believeMaybe this year will be better than the last - Counting CrowsThe lyrics from one of my favorite mellow songs seems appropriate right now. With the market currently experiencing its worst December since 1931, traditional investors have reason to be a bit introspective right now.But are things really as bad as they seem?Today, I w...Read More

December 19, 2018 - Brixton Metals Corporation (TSXV: BBB) (the "Company" or "Brixton") is pleased to announce that it has closed its previously announced non-brokered private placement for gross proceeds of $2,783,480 (the "Private Placement"). The Private Placement consisted of the issuance of 4,905,899 units of the Company (the "Units") issued at a price of C$0.15 per Unit, with each Unit consi...Read More

As a new year approaches, The Northern Miner runs down 15 of the most interesting new mines scheduled to begin production in 2019.The processing plant under construction at Lundin Gold's Fruta del Norte gold mine in southern Ecuador in November 2018. Credit: Lundin Gold.Fruta del Norte (gold)Lundin GoldThe Fruta del Norte saga has been as dramatic as any in the industry. In 2006, Aurelian Resourc...Read More

Largo Resources (TSX: LGO; US-OTC: LGORF) drilled 24 holes totalling 4,223 metres during phase two drilling at its Novo Amparo Norte (NAN) vanadium deposit. The deposit lies 6.5 km north of Largo's Campbell pit at its Maracas Menchen vanadium mine in Bahia State, Brazil. NAN is the northernmost zone of known mineralization at the project.Highlights from the program's first 20 holes include: 1.18%...Read More

Jon Hykawy is the president and director of Stormcrow Capital. He is a research scientist and expert in lithium, the rare earths, fluorspar and tin. Originally training as a physicist, he has gone on to do technical work with rechargeable batteries, fuel cells and solar and wind power. He recently spoke with The Northern Miner about his outlook for battery metals in 2019.The Northern Miner: Before...Read More

The Peter Schiff Show Podcast - Episode 427RATE AND REVIEW this podcast on Facebook.https://www.facebook.com/PeterSchiff/...Seventh Rate Hike since Trump's Election - As expected, earlier today, the Federal Reserve nudged up the Fed Funds rate by another quarter point. The Fed is now targeting their rate at 2.25 - 2.5%. So the range is somewhere in the middle, there. This marks the sixth time...Read More