Authorities bring down illegal mining site in the Peruvian Amazon

The company says it expects construction costs to be about $158 million for the project and that commercial production will begin in the second half of 2014.

The new kid on Canadian Arctic block is announcing plans to build two mines in Nunavut in the next six years.

Rick Rule of Sprott Asset Management says quantitative easing by the EU and US central banks is all but inevitable in the short term.

A senior Republican policy adviser writes that the GOP considered and rejected a return to a gold standard over three decades ago.

Four protestors have been shot and hospitalized as a wave of deadly strikes afflicting South Africa's platinum and gold mining sectors continues to spread.

The cheek of it! They raised the price of my favorite ice cream.

Finally, we have a break to the upside in both gold and silver, something that many precious metals investors have been patiently waiting for, but expected to happen.

Kiska Metals Corporations shares were up almost 19% (at 12:15 ET) Tuesday as the company announced updated results for its Thorn Property in northwestern British Columbia, sent by partner Brixton Metals.

Reservoir Minerals (CVE:RMC) was up 48.39% to $3.22 a share after releasing drill results for its Timok Project in eastern Serbia showing 160 metres grading 10.16% copper equivalent.