India unveils spacecraft that will look for energy sources on the moon

It is hard to see how the twice-daily gold fix can survive.

Gold is in serious trouble and not something I’ll be looking to trade for some time, perhaps even many years as its bull market may be done now.

Sworn in on Tuesday, Modi’s pro-business, small-government policies have already prompted many citizens of the world to liken him to such transformative leaders as Reagan and Margaret Thatcher.

I have not posted on this blog the past few days. The reason: I was at a fly-in, fly-out camp where the internet connection is sporadic and they do not make it easy to access spurious blogs.

Cultural acceptance.

The government may renew Kinross’s rights to the concession, or at least could remove legal hurdles to the prospective sale of Fruta del Norte gold-silver project.

The revisions to the country's mining law would increase the area available to exploration to 20%t from around 8%.

Gold mining stocks have been hit harder than the gold price, but rallies from depressed levels will be short and are "difficult to time".

The LME is among firms vying to take over spot price benchmark system, 30 years after being forced out by Hunt Brothers who famously cornered the market in the late 1970s.