The US is beholden to China for 20 commodities on the US government’s critical minerals list.

World warehouse stocks are dropping, down 50% since the first of April.

Focus on platinum-palladium prices and ratios over the past 48 years.

Canada is the world’s fifth largest oil and gas producer and its energy export revenues are a significant part of the economy.

Today, I present new research covering a 20-year time frame from 1996- 2015 that includes a 12-year bull market for gold from 2001-2012 bracketed by bear markets in the late 1990s and mid-2010s.

Despite the ongoing and deepening bear market for commodities and the junior resource sector, MercenaryGeologist.com continues to produce valuable analysis and research on commodities and equities.

The price of gold has been range-bound from the low $1200s to the upper $1000s per ounce since early February of 2015.

Supply destruction.

Venture always flows where potential reward is perceived to have the lowest risk.

Nevada is one of the most prolific gold provinces on Earth.

It is a bit hard to fathom but nearly three years have lapsed since I penned a rant called “Why Gold Stocks Suck” (Mercenary Musing, April 30, 2012) after a Cambridge House conference in Calgary.

The greenback is increasingly viewed as a safe haven, and I expect it to go even higher in 2015.