World Bank’s a gold price bear

United Nations Development Program chief supports Canada's mix of mining with foreign aid.

Mergers and acquisitions in the sector fell 30% last year and will continue to be low in 2013.

Friendly bid comes barely a month after the Vancouver-based company rejected a hostile offer from fellow Canadian miner Alamos God.

After three years of booming investment in mining exploration, the industry is set to cut down significantly on it this year.

Vancouver company calls ongoing negotiations with Mongolia government productive.

Millions of dollars worth of gold and silver are sitting in landfills waiting to be reclaimed.

Miners in the state are bucking the trend of declining new deposits.

The sector is expected to bring in $53 billion during the next decade.

The markets exhibit patterns that are as easy to track as the planets’ paths, says Malcolm Bucholtz, who trades in the financial markets using technical charts, esoteric mathematics and astrology.