Three reasons gold price rally is over

$9.5bn KSM project in British Columbia boasts reserves of 38m ounces of gold and nearly 10bn pounds of copper – mining 130,000 tonnes a day for 52 years.

According to the legislators, international mining companies —mainly from Australia, Canada and the U.K— are using the forced labour of Eritreans in their operations.

The gold and silver stocks have put in a bullish weekly reversal but Gold and Silver have not confirmed it.

The investigative reporting piece exposed extremely poor working conditions in factories making Apple products in China and Indonesia.

With oil prices having halved in the last six months, together with the attendant currency destabilisation, there have been significant transfers of value through derivative positions, so large that financial instability may result.

Gold stocks have suffered a miserable few years, becoming a laughingstock even among contrarians. But this despised sector’s seemingly-endless downward spiral has left gold stocks vastly undervalued relative to gold, which drives their profits.

Compared to December 2013, bullish bets by large speculators in gold futures are three times higher going into 2015.

Vancouver-based junior jumps 8.5% after hitting targets for re-start of 100%-owned Caribou zinc-lead-copper-silver-gold mine in New Brunswick, Canada.

Find out in today's infographic, covering Barron's recent survey of 10 top analysts on what is to be expected in 2015.