The reason humans are dying out is simple and straightforward. It's best summarized in the famous line from Walt Kelly's 1970 Pogo cartoon: "We have met the enemy and he is us."Humans are the reason humans are dying out. We're not having enough babies. It's that simple.When I use the word "enough" it's important to put a mathematical value on that. This is not guesswork. The key number is 2.1. Tha...Read More
LONDON, 23 August 2021 - Analysis and comment from BullionVault features in today's gold-price report from MarketWatch, the widely syndicated US financial news site.While the falling Dollar helped gold rally today, the metal has also hit "multi-week highs priced in Euros and Yen, and it's now 8% higher from August's flash crash in terms of the British Pound" says MarketWatch, quoting BullionVault....Read More
Gold prices are slipping as talk of a “taper tantrum” has investors thinking that the US Federal Reserve’s bond-buying program could be scaled back.Over the last three days spot gold has dropped $18, peak to trough, on news of US jobless claims falling sharply to 348,000, and the US dollar scaling over a nine-month peak. The dollar’s rise makes gold expensive for holders of...Read More
Gold prices are slipping as talk of a “taper tantrum” has investors thinking that the US Federal Reserve’s bond-buying program could be scaled back.Over the last three days spot gold has dropped $18, peak to trough, on news of US jobless claims falling sharply to 348,000, and the US dollar scaling over a nine-month peak. The dollar’s rise makes gold expensive for holders of...Read More
Gold prices are slipping as talk of a “taper tantrum” has investors thinking that the US Federal Reserve’s bond-buying program could be scaled back.Over the last three days spot gold has dropped $18, peak to trough, on news of US jobless claims falling sharply to 348,000, and the US dollar scaling over a nine-month peak. The dollar’s rise makes gold expensive for holders of...Read More
Gold prices are slipping as talk of a “taper tantrum” has investors thinking that the US Federal Reserve’s bond-buying program could be scaled back.Over the last three days spot gold has dropped $18, peak to trough, on news of US jobless claims falling sharply to 348,000, and the US dollar scaling over a nine-month peak. The dollar’s rise makes gold expensive for holders of...Read More
Adam HamiltonArchivesAug 20, 2021Gold stocks' best-performing subset has been pummeled lower recently, leaving a wake of devastated sentiment. Traders have wholesale abandoned the mid-tier and junior gold miners which are this sector's sweet spot for upside potential during gold uplegs. These gold miners just finished reporting their latest quarterly results, revealing whether their fundamentals j...Read More
The rise and fall of gold stocks is a story of hurt and disappointment. That is because most of the time gold stocks are in decline.Below are four charts which depict the sad story. Following each chart I will make some brief comments… HUI – 1 Year ChartNYSE Arca Gold BUGS Index (INDEX)The HUI is back to its low reached earlier this year in March, at just under 255. Where it goes fr...Read More
Ladies and gentlemen, we have abreakdown! Gold stocks underperformed the yellow metal so much that theyreached the lowest levels seen this year…The HUI Index (goldstocks) broke to new 2021 lows while the USD Index broke to new 2021 highs.Just as I’ve been warning you.Mining stocks’ extremeweakness relative to gold continued yesterday, and while it may seem likethe weakness has t...Read More
The rise and fall of gold stocks is a story of hurt and disappointment. That is because most of the time gold stocks are in decline.Below are four charts which depict the sad story. Following each chart I will make some brief comments… HUI – 1 Year ChartNYSE Arca Gold BUGS Index (INDEX)The HUI is back to its low reached earlier this year in March, at just under 255. Where it goes fr...Read More
Ladies and gentlemen, we have abreakdown! Gold stocks underperformed the yellow metal so much that theyreached the lowest levels seen this year…The HUI Index (goldstocks) broke to new 2021 lows while the USD Index broke to new 2021 highs.Just as I’ve been warning you.Mining stocks’ extremeweakness relative to gold continued yesterday, and while it may seem likethe weakness has t...Read More
The rise and fall of gold stocks is a story of hurt and disappointment. That is because most of the time gold stocks are in decline.Below are four charts which depict the sad story. Following each chart I will make some brief comments… HUI – 1 Year ChartNYSE Arca Gold BUGS Index (INDEX)The HUI is back to its low reached earlier this year in March, at just under 255. Where it goes fr...Read More
Ladies and gentlemen, we have abreakdown! Gold stocks underperformed the yellow metal so much that theyreached the lowest levels seen this year…The HUI Index (goldstocks) broke to new 2021 lows while the USD Index broke to new 2021 highs.Just as I’ve been warning you.Mining stocks’ extremeweakness relative to gold continued yesterday, and while it may seem likethe weakness has t...Read More
The rise and fall of gold stocks is a story of hurt and disappointment. That is because most of the time gold stocks are in decline.Below are four charts which depict the sad story. Following each chart I will make some brief comments… HUI – 1 Year ChartNYSE Arca Gold BUGS Index (INDEX)The HUI is back to its low reached earlier this year in March, at just under 255. Where it goes fr...Read More
Ladies and gentlemen, we have abreakdown! Gold stocks underperformed the yellow metal so much that theyreached the lowest levels seen this year…The HUI Index (goldstocks) broke to new 2021 lows while the USD Index broke to new 2021 highs.Just as I’ve been warning you.Mining stocks’ extremeweakness relative to gold continued yesterday, and while it may seem likethe weakness has t...Read More
Recent drill results from two targets at Aurania Resources' Lost Cities-Cutucu project are reviewed in a Noble Capital Markets report. In an Aug. 20 research note, Noble Capital Markets analyst Mark Reichman reported new drill results from Aurania Resources Ltd.'s (ARU:TSX.V; AUIAF:OTCQB) Tsenken N1 and Tiria-Shimpia targets at its Lost Cities-Cutucu project."The current drilling program appears...Read More
Pretium Resources "accomplished another profitable quarter," ending with $400.8M in-hand. Pretium's Brucejack MinePretium Resources Inc. (PVG:TSX; PVG:NYSE) announced in a news release its Q2/21 financial and operational results, highlighting that it is on track to meet full-year guidance and now its cash exceeds its debt."We accomplished another profitable quarter with $152.3 million ($152.3M) i...Read More
A Stifel report noted MAG Silver "demands a higher premium given its 'royalty-like' structure and strong, near-term-free cash flow." In a July 28 research note, Stifel analyst Stephen Soock reported that the new mill being built at MAG Silver Corp.'s (MAG:TSX; MAG:NYSE American) Juanicipio joint venture project with Fresnillo should be ready for the planned Q4/21 commissioning.Also, Soock highlig...Read More
Sitka Gold reported that during its 2021 drilling campaign, it intercepted 318m of 0.45 g/t gold in the Saddle Zone along with 354m of 0.41 g/t gold in the Eiger Zone at its RC Gold Project in the Yukon. In a news release, Canadian mineral explorer Sitka Gold Corp. (SIG:CSE; SITKF:OTCQB; 1RF:FSE) announced "significant assay results from the first three drill holes completed this season at its...Read More
Technical analyst Clive Maund charts silver and explains why he believes the metal is in the “perfect” buy spot. Silver is now regarded as the best value hard asset around, and it really doesn’t matter in the long-term whether J. P. Morgan and the other banks try to suppress the price or not. Like gold, it has intrinsic value and, in the situation of high inflation that we are mo...Read More