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Here's silver's biggest winning streaks (+10% gains) as well as its worst losing streaks (-10% losses) since 1971.

Gold is up over 15% this year so far, but investors are skeptical about this year's gold rally, and that's a good thing.

"Around the world we see a slowdown in economic activity," he says, and is cautious about investments in equities, but bullish on mining.

The firm has not yet decided whether to inject more cash into Damang or suspend operations.

The funds will be used to advance the Relief Canyon gold project.

The country's central bank added 356,000 ounces of the precious metals to its reserves in February.

Three spills between 2011–2012 were contained by control systems at Barrick Gold's Veladero mine and did not pose any environmental risks.

Barclays says commodity gains this year not supported by fundamentals– sector vulnerable to wave of investor liquidation that could knock prices down 20–25%.