A treasure hunter has more or less refused to return 500 gold coins found in a shipwreck off the South Carolina coast.Continue...Read More
Are we verging on another "Bear Stearns" moment?That is, is the canary in the coal mine of the next crisis ready to keel over?Today we don our mining gear… descend into the dark, doomy shaft... and report worrisome findings.First we throw a penetrating beam of light down another deep black hole - today's stock market.The Dow Jones plunged another 400 points today. The S&P fell 45, while...Read More
Strongwords, aren’t they? And yet, we are not afraid to put them right in the title.The number of factors (and their importance) that point to a nearby reversaland continuation of the major decline is too significant to believe in thebullish case, even though gold, silver, and mining stocks moved higher in thelast few days.Weemphasized it many times and we will continue to do so, as it&rsquo...Read More
Continue...Michael Pento is a specialist in Austrian economics and is the President of Pento Portfolio Strategies. Prior to starting Pento Portfolio Strategies he served as a senior economist and VP of the managed products division of another well known financial firm. Michael has also created ETFs and UITs that were sold throughout Wall Street. Earlier in his career, he worked on the floor of the...Read More
Jordan Roy-Byrne, Founder of The Daily Gold looks past the Fed meeting and first address the selloff in the US markets. We look back on how past bear markets have started and what we expect in terms of a lower high in the first half of 2019. Also the fact that gold has been moving up with the US dollar has us thinking 2019 could continue this trend.Jordan Roy-Byrne, CMT is a Chartered Market Techn...Read More
(Kitco News) - Iran is planning to revitalize its artisanal mining by developing six small-scale gold and copper mines, according to Iran Minerals Production and Supply Company, which is a subsidiary of the state-owned Iranian Mines and Mining Industries Development and Renovation Organization (IMIDRO).The announcement was made though the national public broadcaster and is aimed at legitimizing so...Read More
(Kitco News) - With gold once again seeing some traction on the upside, the yellow metal could be setting up for a late-December rally, said Sprott.“[During] the last four years, once we got to mid-December and the tax loss selling, the December FOMC meeting was behind us, we had rallies in late December and into January. Looks like we are setting up for that again,” TF Metals Report's...Read More
TORONTO (Reuters) - Barrick Gold is interested in early-stage exploration in South America’s Guyana Shield and wants “more exposure” in Canada, Executive Vice President of Exploration Rob Krcmarov said in an investor presentation Friday.“We’d also look to copper opportunities that are within our operating regions, but only if they meet our investment criteria,”...Read More
Is it time to prepare for the next financial crisis?Something strange is going on in the financial system.And according to The Wall Street Journal, it's causing some investors- including the biggest banks in the world- to move massive amounts of money out of the banking system.What exactly is going on?Former hedge fund manager, Dr. Steve Sjuggerud, one of the most widely-followed financial analys...Read More
Philip Wen, Jonathan Barrett, Tom WestbrookPORT MORESBY (Reuters) - Asia-Pacific leaders failed to agree on a communique at a summit in Papua New Guinea on Sunday for the first time in their history as deep divisions between the United States and China over trade and investment stymied cooperation.Competition between the United States and China over the Pacific was also thrown into focus with the...Read More
BERLIN (Reuters) - Forty-four percent of German firms expect a further escalation of trade tensions between Europe and the United States, which is likely to continue to dampen new investments, the RND newspaper chain reported, citing a survey by the IW economic institute.Thirty-four percent do not see trade ties growing more strained, RND reported.It said 41 percent of firms surveyed considered it...Read More
DUBAI (Reuters) - Global ports operator DP World DPW.DI believes international trade tensions such as those between the United States and China will make 2019 challenging but not unmanageable, its chairman said on Sunday.The Dubai government-controlled ports operator cautioned in August about geopolitical risks and changes in trade policies as first-half profit fell 2.1 percent.DP World Chairman S...Read More
(Reuters) - Florida’s outgoing governor, Republican Rick Scott, was declared the winner of the state’s hard-fought U.S. Senate race on Sunday, following a recount of ballots in the tight contest against three-term Democratic incumbent Bill Nelson.In the recount of the ballots cast for the Nov. 6 election, Scott won by 10,033 votes, Florida elections officials said on Sunday. Scott took...Read More
Iran Minerals Production and Supply Company, a subsidiary of state-owned Iranian Mines and Mining Industries Development and Renovation Organization, announced through the country's public broadcaster that it has signed a memorandum of understanding with industry group Iran Mine House and a private company with the idea of developing six small-scale gold and copper mines.With this deal, the Hassan...Read More
An institution with money-printing powers should have no difficulty keeping the lights on. But could it continue to act effectively after depleting its net worth?Former Bank of England policymaker Willem Buiter posed that question in early 2008, and it's currently the biggest challenge facing his long-time research collaborator Urjit Patel, the Reserve Bank of India governor.Under pressure to retu...Read More
Researchers at Ruhr-Universit??t Bochum and the University of Wuppertal in Germany have come up with a new fabrication process for transparent ultra-thin silver films. The new process produces a material capable of increasing the efficiency of solar cells and light-emitting diodes.Up till now, traditional chemical methods have not been able to produce ultra-thin and pure silver films, the scientis...Read More
Through its representative in Argentina, Mario Hern??ndez, Canada's Yamana Gold Inc. (TSX: YRI) (NYSE: AUY) said that, despite having sold the Gualcamayo gold mine to Colombia's Mineros (BVC: MINEROS), it will continue to invest in exploration in different regions of the country.Earlier this year, Yamana announced a hike in its exploration budget to $11.2 million from the $9 million allocated in t...Read More
This gold explorer remains on track with its 2018 project enhancement goals. Liberty's Goldstrike ProjectThis gold explorer remains on track with its 2018 project enhancement goals. Liberty Gold Corp. (LGD:TSX) announced in a news release more results from the reverse circulation drilling at Goldstrike that it finished on Nov. 1. These data will be incorporated into a preliminary resource estimat...Read More
This company continues to explore expansion potential at its open pit and underground mines. Leagold Mining Corp. (LMC:TSX.V; LMCNF:OTCQX) increased the Proven and Probable mineral reserves at the Los Filos open pit in Mexico by 122%, the company announced in a news release. The new 2P total as of Oct. 31, 2018, which is for the Los Filos open pit only, is 40.5 million tons with a grade of 0.6 gr...Read More
The Mercenary Geologist Mickey Fulp discusses with Maurice Jackson of Proven and Probable how peak oil could inform investment in gold miners. Maurice Jackson: Joining us for a conversation is the Mercenary Geologist, Mickey Fulp. Pleasure to speak with you. Mickey Fulp: Thank you, sir.Maurice Jackson:Mickey, one of the concerns that I think speculators are having in the natural resource space is...Read More