The major silver miners have rallied higher on balance in recent months, enjoying a young upleg. That's a welcome change after they suffered a miserable 2018. Times are tough for silver miners, since silver's prices have languished near extreme lows relative to gold. That has forced many traditional silver miners to increasingly diversify into gold. The major silver miners' recently-released Q4'18...Read More

Peninsula Energy Ltd (ASX:PEN) has achieved successful outcomes from the mining phase of a low pH uranium production field demonstration at its Lance Projects in the US state of Wyoming.A key objective of the mining phase was to lower the local mining zone pH to the targeted level of around 2.0 standard units (SU) without compromising the ability to move lixiviant through the mining zone.This tech...Read More

"The reason nobody really knows what caused the financial crisis is that no one asked Ben Bernanke, Chairman of the Federal Reserve at the time, or Hank Paulson, the Treasury Secretary at the time, exactly why they were lying about why those banks supposedly needed a bailout" - John Titus, "The $1 Trillion Devil in the DetailsMany people believe what happened in 2008 is settled history. Or, they j...Read More

Beowulf said on Monday it would double its holding in the company to 31.3% and raise £750,000 at 5.5p, a 21% discount to the previous closing price.The announcement sent its share price down 14% to 6p.CEO Kurt Budge said the capital raise was needed to keep the company's diversification plan going as it struggles to get a licence for its iron ore project in Sweden."Given the current adverse...Read More

Royalty & Streaming is acquiring a royalty on the San Luis property, above, of SSR Mining. Source: Metalla Royalty & Streaming Ltd.Metalla Royalty & Streaming Ltd. [MTA-CSE; MTAFF-OTCQB; X9CP-FSE] said Monday April 1 that it has struck a deal to acquire a portfolio of 18 royalties from Alamos Gold Inc. [AGI-TSX, NYSE] for $11.5 million, payable in common shares of Metalla.The acquisit...Read More

An artist's rendering of the Tres Estradas phosphate mine in Brazil. Source: Aguia Resources Ltd.Aguia Resources Ltd. [AGRL-TSXV; AGR-ASX] shares advanced Monday April 1 after the company said it has raised $874,708 from a private placement financing, and expects to bring in an additional $200,000 from loans provided by certain officers and directors.The non-brokered private placement consists of...Read More

Oil has some great momentum behind it right now.The price of WTI crude topped $60 on Friday, ending its best first quarter in a decade.Looks great.Next stop: $100, right?Well, while oil does seem to have some muscle behind it (and I do think prices are headed a bit higher), I think we should reign in our expectations.Two bullish factors pushing oil higher last week were a decline in both U.S. acti...Read More

By: Keith WeinerWe think we are the only generation to be smart. In the 19th century, they did not have the internal combustion engine. In the 18th century, they did not have the railroad. In the 17th century, they did not have the piano. So, most people assume, they were dumb. They did not know about smart phones, so they would not have understood anything. Such as money.So let's tell the...Read More

StrengthsThe best performing metal this week was platinum, up 0.26 percent as money managers boosted their positions on expectations for higher prices. Gold traders remained bullish this week even though the yellow metal tumbled below $1,300 an ounce, according to the weekly Bloomberg survey. Turkey saw its gold reser...Read More

By: Dave Kranzler"The reason nobody really knows what caused the financial crisis is that no one asked Ben Bernanke, Chairman of the Federal Reserve at the time, or Hank Paulson, the Treasury Secretary at the time, exactly why they were lying about why those banks supposedly needed a bailout" - John Titus, "The $1 Trillion Devil in the DetailsMany people believe what happened in 2008 is settled...Read More

In an interview I did last week with USA Watchdog's Greg Hunter, I came across as a lukewarm gold bull. Although many of those who commented apparently agreed with my grim deflationary scenario for the global economy, the negative implications this could have for gold did not resonate with Greg's audience.In fact, I see significant appreciation potential for gold, although not to the celestial...Read More

By: David Chapman Elliott Wave International (www.elliottwave.com) (EW) recently noted an interesting piece of market symmetry in an addendum to its March 2019 Elliott Wave Theorist dated March 26, 2019. We thought it interesting enough to repeat it to the readers of the Technical Scoop. What EW showed was how the topping process of 2018-2019 has mirrored to a "striking degree" the topping p...Read More

It's no secret that centrals banks across the world have been accumulating gold. The word is out on China and India and others. However, has the Fed been doing the same? Unfortunately, due to the lack of transparency, we can't establish this one way or the other. However, the Fed gets the best information and has the so-called brightest minds working there, so it wouldn't be outrageous to believe...Read More

Bob Moriarty's latest book applies what he has learned from the many mistakes he made in his earlier years to help investors enjoy investing success in the resource sector. Listen to Jay Taylor's March 29th interview with Bob Moriarty for an introduction to his latest book, Basic Investing in Resource Stocks.?>>?Bob brought 321gold.com to the Internet almost 14 years ago. They later added 321energ...Read More

Abby Martin interviews former Technical Director of the National Security Agency, Bill Binney, who blew the whistle on warrantless spying years before Edward Snowden released the evidence. They discuss mass surveillance and the Intelligence Industrial Complex. Keep Empire Files independent and ad-free: https://www.patreon.com/empirefilesRead More

Michael S. "Mickey" Fulp is a Certified Professional Geologist with over 29 years experience as an exploration geologist searching for economic deposits of base and precious metals, industrial minerals, coal, uranium, and water in North and South America and China. Mickey has worked for junior explorers, major mining companies, private companies, and investors as a consulting economic geologist fo...Read More

This week President Trump admitted what the Washington policy establishment of both parties would rather be kept quiet. Asked why he intervened to block a new round of sanctions on North Korea, he told the media that he believes the people of North Korea have suffered enough. "They are suffering greatly in North Korea...And I just didn't think additional sanctions at this time were necessary," he...Read More

U.S. retail sales fell unexpectedly in February in what economists are saying is another sign the U.S. economy is slowing down after the tax-cut surge seen in 2018Continue...Read More

The leader of the world's largest bond fund says we shouldn't be too worried about the recessionary signal coming from the U.S. Treasury market.Continue...Read More

America's richest families are hoarding their cash at record levels. The top one percent have three times more in cash than the bottom halfContinue...Read More