Benchmark to acquire Lawyers gold-silver project

The country's ultimate purpose is to extract rare earth elements, breaking China's dominance and pushing prices down.

Corvus Gold announces most significant drill results in terms of grading and width at 100%-owned North Bullfrog project 200km northwest of Las Vegas.

The U.S. largest miner by market value and revenue is also dealing with a strike threat at its Indonesia's Grasberg copper and gold mine, which recently resumed operations.

The last time gold-backed fund vaults were this empty was September 2009 when gold was trading below $1,000 an ounce.

David Harquail joined well-known investors ‘Lucky’ Pierre Lassonde and Seymour Schulich in 1987, when Franco-Nevada was just getting its legs. He’s been with the company ever since, currently serving as CEO.

Midtier producers will soon be desperate to buy low-cost, high-quality deposits.

I have always been in favor of mining companies holding back the sale of a portion of their metals when prices dip. Furthermore, they should hold reserves beyond the amount needed to run daily operations in gold and silver, not fiat cash.

Members of the World Gold Council spent last year a total of $47 billion in countries hosting their mining operations.

Total gold imports from Hong Kong totalled 91.745 tonnes, as the nation observed its annual holiday the first week of October, a time when millions of people travel and spend more than usual.