Gatos Silver posts solid 2024, preps takeover by First Majestic
The deal will merge Gatos’ main Cerro Los Gatos mine with First Majestic’s San Dimas mine in Durango, and its Santa Elena operation in Sonora.
Ten years ago about 80 central banks lent 15% of their official gold reserves that pushed down spot gold prices, according to an IMF report that was uncovered by Gold Anti-Trust Action Committee.
Some of the banks doing the lending were the German Bundesbank, the Bank of England and the Reserve Bank of Australia.
Gold lending didn’t help spot prices. The authors of the IMF report write that “. . . the increased mobilization of central bank reserves through gold lending operations has had a depressing influence on the spot price for gold since on-lent gold is usually associated with sales of gold in the spot market.”
The IMF report is on GATA’s website.
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