Barrick eyes $1.3 billion lift at Pueblo Viejo mine

Large-scale futures speculators like hedge funds haven't placed this many bullish bets on gold since August 2011.

The company has removed its massive gold and copper project Peru from its list of reserves in its annual filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).

At 7:09 last evening, it was reported that "Deutsche Bank to settle U.S. silver price fixing litigation," which is a staggering admission of that very criminality of which I have been ranting, writing and opining for years now.

Thanks to its innovative program that uses robots to recover the valuable parts from the millions of Apple devices discarded every year.

Afghanistan has reserves of coal, copper, iron ore, zinc, mercury, rare earths, gems such as rubies and emeralds, gold and silver worth about $3 trillion.

China has agreed to scrap some export subsidies on a range of products from metals to agriculture and textiles, the United States said on Thursday, in a step by Beijing to reduce trade frictions with Washington.

Down nearly 2% as rate hikes are put back on the table.

Gold supply is getting tighter, deposits of quality are getting rarer and the project development timeline is getting longer.

As I quantified in a commentary on the subject two years ago, a bad winter can indeed put a chill into the economy, at least temporarily.