July 20, 2015

Gold plummets to five-year low overnight

As heavy selling in early Asian trading hours tossed over a billion dollars’ worth of the bullion on the market in just a few minutes.

July 19, 2015

Barrick poised to sell more gold mines as it whittles down debt

Barrick Gold Corp., nearing a deal for its Zaldivar copper mine, is likely to consider three other mines as leading candidates for sale as it works to cut the biggest…

July 19, 2015

$85 billion in write-offs may fuel small gold mining stocks

‘Dis-aggregation,’ where mines become dispersed among more players, may lead to much greater efficiency in the mining sector.

July 19, 2015

Where is support for precious metals markets?

The gold miners have broken below their 2008 to 2014 support while Silver is essentially trading at a six year low.

July 17, 2015

Gold stocks crash – Barrick plummets to 25-year low

Shares of world's top producer falls to 1990 levels while most valuable gold mining stock Goldcorp tumbles to decade low.

July 17, 2015

China just broke silence on gold reserves — first time since 2009

China says its gold reserves increased 57%, which makes it the country with the sixth-largest hoard of the precious metal.

July 17, 2015

Extremes become more extreme

On the New York Stock Exchange margin debt has hit all-time records at $500bn, roughly double that at the top of the dot-com bubble in 2000 when valuations rose to…

July 16, 2015

Toronto gold junior shares double on fresh offer

Lake Shore Gold trumps earlier offer for Temex Resources and its flagship Whitney project in northeastern Ontario.

July 16, 2015

The world’s highest grade gold mines

Canadian mine takes top honours but Russia and USA dominate the rankings.

July 16, 2015

Planetary Resources’ first spacecraft begins testing asteroid prospecting technology

The Arkyd 3 Reflight (A3R) will spent its three-month orbiting mission sending back data to a group of scientists based at the firm’s headquarters in Redmond, WA.