Almost a year to the day after Boehner joined the board of directors of Arizona Mining, he's walking away with a cool million dollar payday.

In this post I will lay out which sector I believe will do well against a backdrop of rising inflation and rising bond yields (including offering some stock picks), and I will also specify which sectors and asset classes you will want to avoid in 2018.

He built one of the world's largest gold producers. Now Ian Telfer is cornering Mexico's oil privatization.

"My belief is that the most important factor in the gold price, is global faith in the purchasing power of the US dollar, and faith in US Treasury securities."

How Franco Nevada’s founders built a 8,250 bagger and a new gold royalty startup following in their footsteps.

Spin-out of two (U$2.3 billion and U$190 million) gold start-up successes since 2011 could outdo the originals.

CEO Stephen Letwin says IAMGOLD – one of the best-performing gold stocks so far in 2017 - is gunning to be a gold major.

“We got the results back and they were off the canoe!” declares prospector John Robins in his Vancouver office Thursday, recalling the 2002 Aviat diamond discovery now controlled by Stornoway Diamonds.

The November 1991 discovery of diamonds in the Northwest Territories by Chuck Fipke and Stu Blusson put Canada on the global diamond map.

A first look at DeepGreen Resources, a seafloor mining startup partnered with Glencore, Maersk, and Fiore Group to disrupt the metals industry and defend the environment.

Their unique combination of portability and value make diamonds a favoured target of thieves, both on the big screen and in real life.

Fortunes are made, and sometimes lost, in the great mining rushes that drive people, prospectors and dollars on the heels of exciting discoveries.