Lion One encouraged by untested targets at Fijian gold project

What was once considered a new and innovative way of raising money – the streaming deal has taken centre stage as companies are becoming more and more reluctant to issue equity weak market conditions.

Given the strong inverse relationship between US yields and the gold price, gold should've been trading in triple digits right now.

"Only" $1,200 per dozen.

The last time the weather event was present, it wrought havoc on the mining industry in Australia, with thermal and coking coal mines in Queensland hit by flooding from cyclones and heavy rain.

Hard decisions by some mining companies are required in 2016 if they are to avoid solvency problems, warns the Bank of Merrill Lynch.

The incident is Centerra Gold's second brush with Kyrgyzstan authorities in recent months.

It is now halted from trading and its directors and chief executive officers have resigned en masse.

Seven years of zero interest rates have created plenty of capital misallocation, mal-investment and yield chasing.

Today, I present new research covering a 20-year time frame from 1996- 2015 that includes a 12-year bull market for gold from 2001-2012 bracketed by bear markets in the late 1990s and mid-2010s.