Gold Articles

Trade Wars, Spycraft, and Weaponized Silk

October 23, 2025 / Staff reporter

For around 3,000 years, China maintained an airtight monopoly on silk.China's silk empire began in approximately 2400 BC, and the entire process was a state secret. From raising and processing silkworms, to weaving and dying threads.Imperial workshops were vertically integrated and tightly controlled.The punishment for revealing any silk secrets was death. Export of silkworm eggs and mulberry seed...Read More

Looking for Taylor Swift Returns

October 23, 2025 / Staff reporter

Legend has it that in November 2004 Taylor Swift was "discovered" in Nashville. A youngster at the time, merely 14 years old, she was playing guitar and singing at the Bluebird Caf? when a music promoter heard her, took a look, and decided that this gal was going places. And as you surely know, today she's a huge mega-star.Taylor Swift in Nashville, but no I didn't see her. Courtesy billboard.com....Read More

Turning Japanese

October 23, 2025 / Staff reporter

There are 'policies' that seem to work…and some that don't seem to work.But the policy that always works best is no policy at all. That is, left alone, people do the best they can with what they have. Only they know what they want and what they have to work with. The feds, who have aims of their own, can make us do things differently; they can't make us do things better.Doing 'better' is dri...Read More

Dotcom Deja Vu

October 23, 2025 / Staff reporter

During the dotcom boom, fiber optic cabling was a scorching-hot sector.This is the wiring the internet runs on. The arteries and veins of the data world.Corning (NYSE: GLW) was the darling of fiber optics in the 1990s and into 2000. This classic American company had been a leader in specialized glass and ceramic materials for more than a century.Starting in the 1960s, they invested heavily in the...Read More

Keep Calm and Hold Gold and Silver Miners

October 23, 2025 / Staff reporter

I opened my portfolio this morning already wincing, knowing an ugly number would materialize.Oof. It's a red day for those of us with beefy allocations to gold and silver miners. Game of Thrones style.Precious metal miners are correcting sharply. The SILJ junior silver miner ETF is down about 8.5% as of 12:40 PM. The GDX gold miner ETF is down about 7.8%. These are my preferred benchmarks for the...Read More

Bully For Investment Banks!

October 23, 2025 / Staff reporter

I remember getting my offer letter from Lehman Brothers in early 1997, a full 11 years before they went bankrupt, I hasten to add. For a whopping $34,000, I was theirs, green as a Granny Smith apple. My job was in a division called Global Corporate Equity Derivatives, and I was going to help the traders keep their trading books reconciled with the general ledger. It was my first, and last, account...Read More

The Bezzel: Is it 1925 All Over Again?

October 23, 2025 / Staff reporter

During a conference call with investors last week, JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon made a memorable response to a question from Wells Fargo analyst Mike Mayo about the collapse of a subprime auto lender called Tricolor that cost the bank $170 million. Tricolor went bankrupt due to allegations of fraud, including double-pledging of collateral, which led lenders to halt financing."Mike, you should assume t...Read More

Mainstream AIs Battle for Trading Supremacy

October 23, 2025 / Staff reporter

A fascinating experiment is taking place.A startup named Nof1 gave 6 top AI models $10,000 each.They gave models access to a crypto exchange, a data feed, and let each model build its own trading and risk management strategy. The "Alpha Arena" competition started Oct 17th and the first "season" will conclude Nov 3rd.The AIs can use up to 40x leverage. With that much juice, a 2.5% move in the wrong...Read More

Geology, Precious Metals, and China-China-China

October 23, 2025 / Staff reporter

I was in Minnesota last week, in the storied "Iron Range" north of Duluth. In fact, I was out in the field on Friday, looking at Precambrian rocks, and missed the white-knuckle excitement of the market selloff for gold, silver, other metals, miners and more. It's amazing what happens when I leave town, eh?Good morning from northern Minnesota. BWK photo.I spent all day Saturday traveling home and m...Read More

Gold: Most Have No Clue

October 23, 2025 / Ron Struthers

Ron Struthers of Struthers Resource Stock Report reviews gold's latest correction and shares one gold stock he thinks is now a Buy. Yesterday, gold was down about $230 on the Comex. It looks like my $4,350 target is being met, and then a correction/consolidation is turning out to be bang on. I mark this more to logical intuition than technical science. I am sure today the voices are loud, saying...Read More

Mining Co. Advances Massive Gold Gains in Tanzania

October 23, 2025 / Streetwise Reports

Lake Victoria Gold Ltd. (LVG:TSX; LVGLF:OTCQB; E1K:FSE) is conducting a 4,000-meter, multi-purpose drilling program at its Imwelo Gold Project in northwestern Tanzania. Find out why one expert says the time to invest in gold and gold stocks is now. Lake Victoria Gold Ltd. (LVG:TSX; LVGLF:OTCQB; E1K:FSE) is conducting a 4,000-meter, multi-purpose drilling program at the fully permitted Imwelo Gold...Read More

Gold Discovery in California Signals Major New Opportunity

October 23, 2025 / Streetwise Reports

NatBridge Resources Ltd. (NATB:CSE; NATBF:OTC; GI80:FSE)secured 100% of the subsurface mineral rights for Californias Cahuilla Gold Project, adding over 122,000 ounces of indicated gold. The acquisition marks a key step in NatBridge's expansion of verified resources supporting its digital gold monetization strategy. NatBridge Resources Ltd. (NATB:CSE; NATBF:OTC; GI80:FSE) announced it has entered...Read More

New Drill Data Expand Near-Surface Oxide Zone at Gold Project

October 23, 2025 / Lauren McConnell

Liberty Gold Corp.'s (LGD:TSX; LGDTF:OTCQX) latest results reinforce Rangefront as a potential starter pit in the upcoming Black Pine feasibility study, noted a Paradigm Capital report. Liberty Gold Corp.'s (LGD:TSX; LGDTF:OTCQX) newest 2025 drill results, showing additional broad, shallow intervals of oxide mineralization, expanded the upper, near-surface part of the Rangefront zone at its Black...Read More

Gold Developer Uncovers High-Grade Intercepts at South Dakota's Richmond Hill

October 23, 2025 / Peter Bell

Dakota Gold Corp. (DC:NYSE American) releases results from 32 infill and metallurgical drill holes as part of its ongoing 2025 drilling campaign at its Richmond Hill Gold Project in South Dakota. Read why one analyst thinks the data are positive for the company. Dakota Gold Corp. (DC:NYSE American) announced the results from 32 infill and metallurgical drill holes as part of its ongoing 2025 dril...Read More

It Didn't Start with Trump

October 23, 2025 / Staff reporter

"What do you expect when you sue the president?" Hearing that comment, some people may guess the comment was made by someone addressing one of President Trump's political opponents who has been targeted for federal prosecution.That quote, though, is much older. It is from an IRS agent addressing officials of a conservative organization that was being audited during Bill Clinton's presidency. This...Read More

The Silver Squeeze Wrecking Ball

October 22, 2025 / Staff reporter

It's been a wild ride over the past few trading days...On Friday, President Trump started a mini-crash by threatening China with new 100% tariffs.Stocks slid, crypto crashed, and miners dipped.But yesterday, President Trump strapped on his Superman cape and saved the day. He struck a more conciliatory tone after China replied to his tariff threat with a hard-nosed retort.As a result, markets opene...Read More

Metals Explorer Turns to AI to Find Mineralized Trends

October 22, 2025 / Streetwise Reports

Metallic Minerals Corp. (MMG:TSX.V; MMNGF:OTCQB) is collaborating with VRIFY Technology Inc. to implement advanced artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning technologies across its promising precious metals and critical minerals projects in Canada and the United States. Read what research analysts rate the stock. Metallic Minerals Corp. (MMG:TSX.V; MMNGF:OTCQB) announced a strategic colla...Read More

High-Grade Gold Hits and Analyst Praise Fuel Miners Next Move

October 22, 2025 / Streetwise Reports

Vanguard Mining Corp. (UUU:CSE; UUFF:OTC; SL51:FWB) is stepping up exploration at its Brussels Creek Project near Kamloops after drilling returned gold grades up to 11.52 g/t. The company's proximity to New Gold's producing New Afton Mine adds weight to its growing presence in British Columbia's mining corridor. Vanguard Mining Corp. (UUU:CSE; UUFF:OTC; SL51:FWB) has announced updates to its 2025...Read More

Drill Bit Hits Wide, High-Grade Gold Intercepts at Depth

October 22, 2025 / Matthew O'Keefe

West Red Lake Gold Mines Ltd.'s (WRLG:TSX.V; WRLGF:OTCQB; FRA:UJO) latest results from the Austin zone bode well for expanding resource ounces for the current ramp-up to commercial production at Madsen, noted a Cantor Fitzgerald report. West Red Lake Gold Mines Ltd.'s (WRLG:TSX.V; WRLGF:OTCQB; FRA:UJO) newly reported underground drill results from the lower Main Austin zone at Madsen confirmed th...Read More

The Third Act: New Companies Poised to Build Extraordinary Wealth in Gold Equities

October 22, 2025 / John Newell

John Newell of John Newell & Associates reviewsthe LinkedIn Producer Model Portfolio, launched on January 2, 2019, and shows what the next year may look like. Gold is breaking out, but the most valuable signal for equity investors is not the headline price. It is how leadership changes after a long base.In both prior up-legs in gold, the heavy lifting in equities came from mid-cap producers and...Read More

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