Heading into the weekend we have a fantastic Real Vision episode with dollar bear Ben Melkman who is interviewed by dollar bull Raoul Pal. It makes for a great conversation where Ben does a good job challenging Raoul's dollar shortage thesis. Nevertheless, they find some common ground when it comes to gold which Ben describes as a high-quality bet. Ben also explains how the Fed is backing itself...Read More
Gary Tanashian, NFTRHGold stocks have led the market for a year, and with economic deceleration and Fed policy response that leadership looks to continue [edit: today's 'in the bag' bounce-back Jobs report does little to alter the economic deceleration theme]We have been on a bullish gold mining view for over a year now. Over that time there have been three interruptions, the downward-biased c...Read More
Gold, silver, and their miners' stocks suffer their weakest seasonals of the year in early summers. With traders' attention normally diverted to vacations and summer fun, interest in and demand for precious metals usually wane. Without outsized investment demand, gold tends to drift sideways dragging silver and miners' stocks with it. Feared as the summer doldrums, sometimes unusual cata...Read More
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Gary Tanashian, NFTRHGold stocks have led the market for a year, and with economic deceleration and Fed policy response that leadership looks to continue [edit: today's 'in the bag' bounce-back Jobs report does little to alter the economic deceleration theme]We have been on a bullish gold mining view for over a year now. Over that time there have been three interruptions, the downward-biased c...Read More
Gold, silver, and their miners' stocks suffer their weakest seasonals of the year in early summers. With traders' attention normally diverted to vacations and summer fun, interest in and demand for precious metals usually wane. Without outsized investment demand, gold tends to drift sideways dragging silver and miners' stocks with it. Feared as the summer doldrums, sometimes unusual cata...Read More
"...were to suddenly head multiples higher, you would probably want to have a bug-out bag by the door and a survival bunker nearby."Mickey Fulp on Palisade RadioTom welcomes Mickey Fulp of the mercenarygeologist.com back to the program. Mickey discusses the crazy valuations that have developed and what he coins "Market Covidicy." He cautions that if gold or silver were to suddenly head multiples h...Read More
Not surprisingly, there's a lot of attention on the gold market. But if you think gold is doing well, you almost have to...Ronnie Stoeferle interviewed by Chris Marcus of Arcadia EconomicsAs government financials deteriorate at an accelerating rate, while central banks print faster than ever, not surprisingly, there's a lot of attention on the gold market.Although if you think gold is going to do...Read More
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Sebastien de Montessus, president and CEO of Endeavour Mining Corporation, discusses the company's growth prospects.Read full newsRead More
The effects of gold mining on forest health are long lasting. According to new research, gold mining stunts the regrowth of Amazon forests, limiting their ability to store carbon.Read full newsRead More
Income investors who rely on stable and steady dividends in retirement haven’t had much to cheer about recently. Dividends stocks have been highly volatile, and investors are rightfully nervous. However, there is some good news. For the first time since the pandemic began, dividends are stabilizing. This means that we are seeing fewer dividend cuts and more dividend raises. In fact, Jun...Read More
Dhanbad mine complex in the eastern Jharkhand state. (Image by Nitin Kirloskar, Flickr). India's Coal Minister Pralhad Joshi said that just a few days into the auction process of coal blocks to commercial mining operators, 1,140 parties have shown interest in taking part in this new chapter in the country's mining history.In mid-June 2020, Prime Minister Narendra Modi India announced that his adm...Read More
Tenguel river after the tailings dam breach. (Screenshot from video by Diario El Mercurio). The Ecuadorian Ministry of Energy and Nonrenewable Natural Resources informed that a small tailings dam breached in the southern Azuay province, releasing about 50 tonnes of pollutants into the Tenguel river.The accident was caused by the collapse of a retaining wall at the Armijos tailings station, locate...Read More
Diver Christophe Le Maillot documents the rock-crowding activity at La Mina. (Image by Sam Meacham, courtesy of CINDAQ). Archaeologists and cave divers found in Mexico what they believe is the oldest known mine in the American continent.In a paper published in the journal Science Advances, the explorers explain that a flooded cave in the southeastern state of Quintana Roo hosts irrefutable eviden...Read More
Raised geopolitical tensions over the COVID-19 blame game ahead of the US November presidential election and unprecedented government stimulus were among factors to be bullish for gold, according to Saxo Market's head of commodity strategy Ole S. Hansen."There are several reasons to believe that gold will make a move to at least $1,800/oz in 2020, followed by a fresh record high in the coming year...Read More
"What COVID has done for us is really focus us as a sector in so far as this pandemic can never be resolved, we can never find the answer to it and respond to it, without jointly working together toRead More
Three time best-selling book author Nomi Prins says gold prices are going to "follow the expansion of the Fed's balance sheet." It is that simple, and Prins predicts, "As we saw in the wake of the financial crisis of 2008, gold and silver will have the ability to go up quite substantially as the Fed's book increases in size, which we know it is going to do. We have been told that multiple times by...Read More