On a monthly chart, the last resistance point for gold is the $1923 peak in 2011.Continue...Read More

Chains are only as strong as their weakest link-and recent covid-19 shutdowns have affected every link in the gold supply chain, from producers to end-users.Continue...Read More

"That national banks may escrow encryption keys used in connection with digital certificates because a key escrow service is a functional equivalent to physical safekeeping."Continue...Read More

McAlinden Research examines the investment opportunity afforded by copper in the evolving pandemic and post-pandemic economy. The coronavirus has disrupted copper mines and delayed new builds, throttling current and future supply. Meanwhile, demand is bouncing back as the world's biggest consumers of copper reboot their economies. Stimulus packages being unleashed across the world also promise to...Read More

Blackrock Gold will use the gross proceeds to expand the exploration program at one of its Nevada projects. In a news release, Blackrock Gold Corp. (BRC:TSX.V; BKRRF:OTCMKTS) announced a nonbrokered private placement that includes an investment by Eric Sprott.The private placement is for 10,416,667 units at CA$0.72 per unit for gross proceeds of about CA$7.5 million. Each unit consists of one com...Read More

HighGold Mining announced that it has upsized its drill program to 15,000 meters and added a 3rd drill rig at its Johnson Tract Gold project in Southcentral Alaska. High Gold Johnson TractIn a news release HighGold Mining Inc. (HIGH:TSX.V; HGGOF:OTCQX) announced that it has "increased the scope and budget for the 2020 exploration program at its flagship Johnson Tract Gold project in Southcentral...Read More

Lion One Metals is exploring the hypothesis that lodes it uncovered "connect to form a possible feeder structure." Gold veining on hole TUDDH500Lion One Metals Ltd. (LIO:TSX.V; LOMLF:OTCQX) announced in a news release that it encountered significant gold mineralization at its Tuvatu project in Fiji through one of its diamond drill holes.Hole TUDDH500 intercepted the mineralization in a network of...Read More

With gold and silver "climbing to the moon," Bob Moriarty of 321gold discusses four juniors. My readers may be shocked to hear that I have been exceptionally busy lately, as the metals seem to be climbing to the moon. Naturally the stories I follow are trying to make hay while the sun shines so I am forced into ganging some of those stories together else I will never catch up. There are probably...Read More

Technical analyst Clive Maund charts the start of the "biggest silver bull market in history." The purpose of this update is to celebrate and mark silver's powerful breakout from a giant base pattern that started to form as far back as 2013-2014, a breakout which has only happened during the past few days, July 21 and July 22, with Wednesday's advance finally seeing it break clear above the resis...Read More

Adjusted steel safeguard measures in Europe, combined with new trade cases, will limit availability of imported hot-rolled coil and support domestic prices. The latest changes, however, are not the end to the protectionist measures in the EU.Please click on the thumbnail below to download this free special report.Read More

The purpose of this update is to celebrate and mark silver's powerful breakout from a giant base pattern that started to form as far back as 2013 - 2014, a breakout which has only happened during the past 2 days, yesterday and today, with today's advance finally seeing it break clear above the resistance at the upper limits of the base pattern. While this doesn't mean it can't drop back again it...Read More

China’s economy grew 3.2 percent in Q2 2020. The expansion was above expectations, but it does not have to sink gold.Last week, China reported that its economy grew 3.2 percent year-on-year in the second quarter of this year, following a 6.8 percent contraction in the previous quarter, as the chart below shows. Importantly, the actual growth rate beat the market expectations of a 2.5 percent...Read More

By: Gary SavageGold has left behind the resistance zone from 2011, we will likely see all-time highs acting as a magnet pulling the price higher: https://blog.smartmoneytrackerpremium.com/Read More

China has become the savior of the global steel market, with its big appetite and high domestic prices supporting the international ferrous supply chain amid the Covid-19 pandemic.While demand for steel in most economies has plummeted in the face of the health crisis, that in China has been strengthening since at least the second quarter of 2020 amid the country's steady recovery after battling th...Read More

Last week, we wrote that gold miners flashed an“extremely overbought” signal, which they had only flashed once in the past –almost right at the 2016 top. The GoldMiners Bullish Percent Index recently moved to the highest levelthat it could reach – 100.The only other case when the index was at 100, wasin mid-2016. We marked this situation with a vertical dashedline. Did min...Read More

As the world's economic engine starts to recover from the COVID-19 pandemic, the demand for certain key commodities are a good indicator of the rebound strength.The S&P GSCI Commodity Index (Chart 1) is a collection of24 commodities from all commodity sectors (energy products, industrial metals, agricultural products, livestock products and precious metals). Since 2011, the index has been in a...Read More

Here are five Fastmarkets stories you might have missed on Thursday July 23 that are worth another look.Adjusted steel safeguard measures in Europe, combined with new trade cases, will limit availability of imported hot-rolled coil and support domestic prices.Companies with strong balance sheets and access to capital could drive a...Read More

Adjusted steel safeguard measures in Europe, combined with new trade cases, will limit availability of imported hot-rolled coil and support domestic prices. The latest changes, however, are not the end to the protectionist measures in the EU.Please click on the thumbnail below to download this free special report.Read More

The three-month nickel price on the London Metal Exchange rallied at the close of trading on Thursday July 23, with the price settling more than 4% higher after US carmaker Tesla called for a ramp-up in global nickel mining.Meanwhile, a continued tightening of LME copper's forward curve failed to hamper the metal's positive close.Nickel's outright price on the LME closed at $13,689 per tonne, a ri...Read More

Jan Nieuwenhuijs, VOIMAThree elements cause physical delivery on the COMEX to have reached record highs this year: strong demand for futures in New York, a persisting spread between the price of futures in New York versus spot gold in London, and arbitrage.Physical delivery on the largest gold futures exchange in the world, the COMEX in New York, has reached all time highs this year. In June mor...Read More