Britain’s Royal Mint launches gold-backed securities tradable on LSE

Picks up private Australian nickel and gold mine and stake in Manitoba copper mine from VMS Ventures.

For the first time since the height of the Seventies oil crisis and the end of the gold standard does an ounce of gold buy you more than 34 barrels of oil.

Hedge funds increase bullish bets on gold price more than 10-fold, positioning for further upside.

The benchmark has settled outside the same day’s spot trading range, at least 10 times in the last six months.

More than 200 delegates from the mining, renewable energy and finance sectors attended this event.

Some of the mines on this list get less than 100 mm of precipitation per year.

These high-grade mines will soon start competing with gold mining's industry leaders.

Teck Metals Ltd. is expected to be hit with substantial fines.

More than $2 billion flow back into physical gold-backed ETFs in January.