Sibanye logs steep rise in half-year profit, mulls platinum mines future

Working alongside men old enough to be their fathers

In an interview with The Gold Report, the economic philosopher, Leonard Melman, is troubled about the direction of the global economy.

The notable flops, failures and flameouts of the year.

State premier gives firm support to uranium mining despite federal approval delays

Excess sub-contractors and outdated construction techniques lead to cost blowouts and project delays

A negative feedback loop is already in play in the fracking business.

While it may be no surprise that Republicans are preparing to yield on tax hikes, it should raise investor concerns the world over that a budget agreement will likely involve a Congressional surrender of its authority to set the federal debt ceiling.

Only four metals, or element groups, made the list for the American Physical Society, Materials Research Society and the US Department of Energy's uncatalogued for 'critical metals': Rare Earth elements, platinum group metals, lithium and cobalt.

As the Fed’s past QE campaigns demonstrated abundantly, QE3 will eventually prove to be very bullish for silver’s fortunes.