Veteran gold investment expert Richard Russell says that as a result of Bernanke's knocking down of the US dollar "insane" bubbles are building up everywhere in the American economy.
The total value of overseas mergers and acquisitions pursued by Middle Kingdom's mining and metals players has surged this year according to sector experts from Ernst & Young Global.
The world's biggest mining company has announced that it has embarked upon the search for a successor to Marius Kloppers as the South African approaches his sixth year as BHP's CEO.
The Russian government is considering allowing foreign investors to develop strategic gold and precious metals minefields, through the adoption of amendments on the currently existing federal law “On Subsoils”, which regulates the development of the minefields in Russia.
Gold held in the vaults of key central banks around the globe may not have been accurately recorded. A report issued last month in Germany has brought this issues to the fore.