QUICK FACTS: Gold ETFs, the people’s central bank
Only two countries, the US and Germany, hold more bullion than gold-backed ETF investors.
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Construction of $9bn Roy Hill iron ore mine kicks off, no $2-a-day workers needed
The biggest Australian iron ore mine to emerge in decades would not employ any of the 1,700 foreign construction workers it had been allowed to import.
What Maslow and Rand would tell investors today
Frank Holmes: While gold’s performance in the short term has been counterintuitive, I simply feel safer with a small weighting in gold as insurance.
Survey shows fewer Americans pick gold as top investment choice
Gold still handsomely beats out property and stocks.
The curious case of the missing Chinese mining billionaire
Chairman of mining group Hanlong, Liu Han's disappearance also highlights the dangers faced by Western firms trying to do business with Chinese tycoons.
CHARTS: Russia seeks investors for 91 million ounces of in-situ gold
One of the 86 deposits to be publicly auctioned holds 7.8 million ounces of gold in situ.
