Mexico-focused precious metals miner Orla Mining (TSX: OLA; NYSE: ORLA) is expanding its footprint into the U.S. with the acquisition of Gold Standard Ventures (TSX: GSV; NYSE: GSV), whose main…
Investors in gold stocks have taken profits in one of the best years for investing in the precious metal in more than a decade.The high price of gold has been linked to the tensions with Iraq, but thi…
(The author is a governor of the U.S. Federal Reserve Board.)Since the Second World War, inflation — the apparently inexorable rise in the prices of goods and services — has been the bane of central…
Description: The patient, named Mr. Goldfinger for the purpose of this presentation, is a 5,000-plus-year-old commodity residing within the precious metals sector and in use all over the world. At Dec…
Precious MetalsPrice (US$/oz.)ChangeGold$317.50+$0.35Silver$ 4.50+$0.02…
One of the world’s rarest and most sought-after gold collector coins, the 1933 Double Eagle, was sold at Sotheby’s auction house in New York, N.Y., for US$7.6 million, a new record.The bidding, in US$…
Don’t panic.On the morning of Wednesday, June 26, in the wake of the latest example of gross U.S. corporate misgovernance, it would have taken a brave person to bet on base metals markets ending the w…
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After a week (Jan. 28-Feb. 1) which saw copper move from severe vulnerability to the strongest technical close in more than six months and aluminum climb above US$1,400 per tonne, the base metals comp…
Mining, to a greater degree than most heavy industries, relies on demand from the emerging markets. Industrializing economies, historically, have used about twice as much metal per unit of production …
Despite fresh production cuts in zinc and copper (in byproduct form), base metals prices continued to trend lower during the report period Oct. 29-Nov. 2, dominated by poor economic data out of the U….
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