December 20, 2012

Commander-Led syndicate acquires large, Prospective Gold property in NW Ontario

Commander reports that following it has acquired a large area of land covering the strike extent of rock formation hosting geochemical anomalies and gold, silver and base metals mineralization adjacent…

December 20, 2012

Byron King: How to up your investing IQ with gold

Have you ever actually held gold in your hands? Byron King, editor of the Outstanding Investments and Energy & Scarcity Investor newsletters, suggests that you do

December 18, 2012

Silver extremely low because of paper market — Embry

Sprott Asset Management's chief investment strategist, John Embry, said Tuesday that with China's silver demand rising sharply and money printing to infinity being Western central bank policy, silver's price remains…

December 18, 2012

Nearly 90 pieces of gold and silver found in English historical site

About 90 new pieces of gold and silver have been discovered in the field close to Lichfield, in Staffordshire, England, where the Staffordshire Hoard of Anglo-Saxon treasure was found three…

December 18, 2012

China’s MMG to plough AUD$1.5bn into Queensland zinc mine

The Middle Kingdom's overseas resource buying spree continues

December 18, 2012

Gold and silver cartels getting desperate: Turk

Precious metals expert advocates sticking to investment in physical bullion

December 17, 2012

LME hits record volumes on last independent day

149.6 million lots carrying a notional value of $13.6 trillion ahead of Hong Kong takeover completion.

December 17, 2012

Chileans divided over value of Barrick’s water fund

When it comes to its $8.5 billion Pascua Lama project, 2012 was not a great year for Canada’s Barrick Gold.

December 17, 2012

Anglo Asian signs copper sales contract with Glencore

Under the terms of the sales agreement, Glencore will purchase 250 wet metric tonnes (WMT) per month of copper concentrate product.

December 16, 2012

First Majestic announces friendly acquisition of Orko Silver

First Majestic has agreed to acquire all of the issued and outstanding common shares of Orko