Vancouver-based silver and gold co. is exploring a very high-grade and robust silver ore discovery at its Santa Ana project in Colombia.News Flash, March 2: Outcrop Silver & Gold Corp. on Wednesday announced that it will increase its previously announced public offering to $6 million.The offering consists of units of the company at a price of $0.27 each. Units are made up of one common share of t...Read More

Fiji might be known for its bottled water, but gold production keeps the lights on. Fiji is located on an active tectonic boundary between the Pacific and Indo-Australian Plate, known as the "Ring of Fire." This rift hosts several world-class copper-gold porphyry and epithermal gold deposits. One Vancouver-based junior is tracking at least one more.Porgera. Lihir. Vatukoula. These are the names of...Read More

This company has announced more excellent drill results from its project in Mexico, and the Critical Investor believes it is well on its way to prove 1Moz of heap leachable gold.After completing the first 26 holes of its Phase 2 RC drill program at the California target, part of its Cervantes gold-copper project in Sonora, Mexico, on Jan. 26, Aztec Minerals Inc. (AZT:TSX.V; AZZTF:OTCQB) doesn't se...Read More

Currently China has a virtual stranglehold on rare earth elements, but this Canadian company is getting ready to capitalize on the downstream value of processing the REEs it's mining.News Flash, March 3: Defense Metals Corp. on Thursday announced rare earth element (REE) diamond drilling results from two holes totaling 324 meters at its 100%-owned Wicheeda property in British Columbia.The two infi...Read More

A miner reports better earnings than expected and meets its guidance for the third year in a row, Adrian Day of Global Analyst reports.Barrick Gold Corp. (ABX:TSX; GOLD:NYSE) reported better earnings than expected, even though costs were at the higher end of guidance (but still good at $725 per ounce), and capital spending increased. The Nevada and copper mines in particular helped. The company ha...Read More

Wolves in sheep's clothing are currently hard at work undermining the world's clean energy efforts. "Experts" who claim to be in favor of sustainable power are hell-bent on destroying the world's best chance for limitless, carbon-free electricity. Right now, a former leader of the wolf pack is rearing his head into the news cycle. Gregory Jaczko, Obama-era former Nuclear Regulatory Commission (N...Read More

LONDON, 24 January 2022 - Analysis from BullionVault leads the gold-market report posted today on MSN, the news and web portal from global software giant Microsoft.With stock markets tumbling around the world, "Gold is clearly finding favor as portfolio insurance," MSN quotes Adrian Ash, director of research at BullionVault.Read the full story, first published by MarketWatch, at MSN here:Gold set...Read More

I'll never forget the day I got my first car. My uncle worked for the Metropolitan Transit Authority down in New York City, and one of his colleagues had an old clunker he wanted to offload. Since I'd just turned 16 and gotten my license, my uncle kindly thought of me and inquired about the vehicle on my behalf. "It's a 1979 Cadillac Coupe DeVille," he told me over the phone. "It runs, but it nee...Read More

LONDON, 24 January 2022 - Analysis from BullionVault is published today by leading German investment tips website Godmode Trader.Gold priced in Euros has traded higher than current levels on only 49 business days, fewer than for gold priced in other currencies. This shows, says the report, how far the ECB has fallen short of expectations in tackling the current surge in global inflation.Read more...Read More

LONDON, 23 January 2022 - Comment from BullionVault features today in advice from the UK's best-selling Sunday newspaper about new commemorative coins being issued to mark Her Majesty the Queen's platinum jubilee.Whilst potentially appealing to avid collectors, "In gold value terms such coins are not the best investment," the Mail on Sunday quotes Adrian Ash, director of research at BullionVault....Read More

LONDON, 14 January 2022 - Analysis from BullionVault is quoted today in The Daily Telegraph, the UK's conservative-leaning broadsheet newspaper, about the impact of rising inflation on gold investment and prices.With inflation surging near post-WW2 highs in the US, there's "reason to expect the price of gold, the world's oldest inflation hedge, to take off. But it hasn't," says The Telegraph's Que...Read More

LONDON, 12 January 2022 - BullionVault director of research Adrian Ash was a guest this morning on the BBC World Service's flagship Newsday current affairs show."Among all the sources of gold demand," Adrian told BBC radio's global listeners, "investment demand is what drives gold prices, and in 2020 we saw record inflows. That proved a hard act to follow."Looking briefly at the impact on gold of...Read More

LONDON, 10 January 2022 - BullionVault's latest Gold Investor Index data are highlighted today in a report on Germany's solid private gold-investment demand from WirtschaftsWoche, one of the country's leading investment magazines."Inflation rates of over 5% are ringing alarm bells for many Germans, so gold is in demand again as a safe haven," WiWo says."The trading platform BullionVault reports th...Read More

LONDON, 6 January 2022 - Leading German finance magazine Das Investment today reports at length on BullionVault's latest Gold Investor Index data."Private investors in this country were more interested in gold again in December," says the report, noting that the Gold Investor Index Deutschland "climbed to a 3-month high of 57.4 points."Find Das Investment's full report (in German) on BullionVault'...Read More

This past Monday was brutal.The Dow plummeted 1,000 points. The S&P 500 lost nearly 4% of its value, and the Nasdaq lost nearly 5%.The only stocks that were paying off that day were defense stocks and ETFs that short the broader markets.But that's just the nature of the markets.Sometimes you win, sometimes you lose.Although it doesn't always have to be that way.Truth is, there is one investment y...Read More

The fear in today's market is palpable, and blood is spilling freely.You can taste it everywhere you go, like a crimson snowflake littering portfolios up and down Wall Street. Over the last three weeks alone, we've seen the tech-heavy Nasdaq shed 15%. For some people, their proclivity to panic has put them in full distress.Others, however, know that a bloody market is one of the most profitable o...Read More

About seven weeks ago, on December 7, 2021, I put out an alert with the subject line "I Hate to Say This, But..."Here's what I wrote:This is the most ominous chart I've seen in years:This is a five-year monthly candlestick chart of the SPX. The SPX is based on the 500 top companies in the United States.Each candlestick represents a month. The chart goes back to 2017.That red candlestick from two m...Read More

Russian forces have made minimal progress against Ukraine in recent days. Unlike the invader, gold rallied very quickly and achieved its long-awaited target - $2000!Nobody expected the Russian inquisition! Nobody expected such a fierce Ukrainian defense, either. Of course, the situation is still very dramatic. Russian troops continued their offensive and – although the pace slowed down consi...Read More

Crude Oil Climbs High. Is It Enough to Enjoy a BetterView?The threat of sanctions caused a stirin the markets: WTI spiked above $130 and Brent is nearing the $140 mark. Whereis crude oil going next?A possible Western embargo on Russian oilcaused oil prices to soar again on Monday, as stock markets feared persistentinflation and a consequent economic slowdown.On the US dollar side, the continuedral...Read More

This month, the Fed is expected to hike interest rates. Contrary to popular belief, the tightening doesn't have to be adverse for gold. What does history show?March 2022 – the Fed is supposed to end its quantitative easing and hike the federal funds rate for the first time during recovery from a pandemic crisis . After the liftoff, the Fed will probably also start reducing the size of its ma...Read More