Three Tech Breakthroughs for Graphene Investors
Source: Josh Grasmick, The Penny Sleuth  (10/26/12)
"Just in the month of October, three breakthroughs have proved how graphene isn't just opening new possibilities. . .it's closing in on tangible results." More >

Peter Vermeulen's European Perspective on Targeting Mining Winners
Source: Brian Sylvester of The Gold Report  (10/24/12)
Peter Vermeulen, portfolio manager with the Plethora Precious Metals Fund in The Netherlands, offers a European perspective on investing in precious metals juniors and has solid insights to help manage risk in junior mining portfolios. In this exclusive interview with The Gold Report, Vermeulen counsels precisely targeting companies that have promising projects and secondary benefits—and the skilled management to deliver on them. More >

Sprott's Charles Oliver Sees Momentum Building for Gold and Silver
Source: JT Long of The Gold Report   (10/24/12)
Sprott's Charles Oliver says it's a great time to be heading up a precious metals fund. Gold and silver companies are trading at spectacular valuations, quantitative easings by the governments of the world are poised to strengthen the metals' prices even further, and more bargains could be had soon if investors dump stocks to avoid taxes. In this interview with The Gold Report, Oliver, manager of the Sprott Gold and Precious Minerals Fund, talks about the momentum building for gold and silver and shares the names of undervalued opportunities. More >

Why the Price of Gold Is Headed to $2,000/oz
Source: Diane Alter, Money Morning  (10/24/12)
"CIBC World Markets says both gold and silver are due for a seasonal bounce and investors should plunge into the sector now." More >

Short-Term Speculators Blamed for Sell-Off in Gold
Source: Adrian Ash, BullionVault  (10/24/12)
"Tuesday's fall in gold prices came amid 'a market-wide retreat' said one analyst, with 'across-the-board selling by speculators' according to another." More >

Watch Gold Action for Possible Buy Signals: Nomura
Source: Kitco News, Debbie Carlson  (10/24/12)
"Gold prices are trading under the level where they were prior to the Fed's third QE announcement, pressured by speculators in the futures market selling positions, says Nomura, since holdings in gold ETFs have been relatively stable." More >

Ames Laboratory Improving Process to Recycle Rare-Earth Materials
Source: Phys.org   (10/24/12)
"Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Ames Laboratory are working to more effectively remove the neodymium, a rare earth element, from the mix of other materials in a magnet." More >

Going with Your Gut on Rare Earth Stocks: Mike Niehuser
Source: The Critical Metals Report Editors  (10/23/12)
Mike Niehuser isn't a rare earth expert per se, but the Beacon Rock Research founder says many of the same investment principles hold true for resource stocks across sectors. At the end of the day, all resource stocks, rare earth plays included, are story stocks, and it takes intuition to buy or sell successfully. In this exclusive interview with The Critical Metals Report, Niehuser tells the spellbinding stories of two promising rare earth companies. More >

Has QE3 fatigue set in to the gold market?
Source: Geoff Candy, Mineweb  (10/23/12)
"The current nervousness and fatigue among gold investors is understandable, but for both UBS and Standard Bank, there are reasons to still be bullish." More >

Why A New Monetary System May Be Our Only Hope
Source: Larry Edelson, ETF Daily News  (10/23/12)
"There is nothing better than gold. If you own gold already, hold, and watch for signals to add more." More >

Turkish Gold Trade Booms to Iran, Via Dubai
Source: Reuters, Humeyra Pamuk  (10/23/12)
"Official Turkish trade data suggests nearly $2B worth of gold was sent to Dubai on behalf of Iranian buyers in August. The shipments help Tehran manage its finances in the face of Western financial sanctions." More >

What is China Really Doing in the Gold Markets?
Source: Lawrence Williams, Mineweb  (10/22/12)
"China is believed to be the world's largest gold producer, but do the announced statistics include gold production from small mines outside the general reporting framework and/or the byproduct gold from the country's huge smelting and refining sector?" More >

Mining Stocks Now Provide Bargain Trade Opportunities: Florian Siegfried
Source: Zig Lambo of The Gold Report  (10/22/12)
Many precious metals mining stocks are now trading at bargain prices but the old "buy and hold" strategy no longer applies in this fluid market environment, says Florian Siegfried, CEO of Precious Capital AG. In this exclusive interview with The Gold Report, Siegfried says investors need to do their homework and pick their entry and exit points carefully as he names some undervalued opportunities he expects to provide above-average returns in the next market run-up. More >

Gold Trades Marginally Higher, Holds Below $1,730/oz
Source: MarketWatch, Myra Saefong and Barbara Kollmeyer  (10/22/12)
"Gold futures edged higher on Monday, recovering a fraction of the heavy losses at the end of last week as traders awaited this week's Federal Reserve meeting." More >

Futures Cleanout Leaves Gold in Better Position to Climb Higher
Source: Ben Traynor, BullionVault  (10/22/12)
"Investor uncertainty over the ability of QE3 to support prices and/or the longevity of Fed's open-ended commitment to easing has been acutely manifest in futures market positioning." More >

Bolivia Faces Struggle to Revitalize Image Among Mining Community
Source: Mining Weekly, Simon Rees  (10/22/12)
"Bolivia needs to attract foreign investment and know-how to continue developing vibrant, modern mining." More >

A Big Trade Is Setting Up in These Small Stocks
Source: Daily Wealth Trader, Amber Lee Mason and Brian Hunt  (10/22/12)
"The mining stock correction has arrived. Smart traders will use this correction to put on more mining stock trades." More >

How The World Uses Rare Earth Metals: Infographic
Source: VoucherCloud  (10/22/12)
"Rare earth elements are crucial to maintaining our current economy, and crucial to developing a sustainable future." More >

Why REE Mining Will Never, Ever Be the Same
Source: Nick Hodge, Energy & Capital  (10/20/12)
"Just as new technology enabled explorers to liberate petroleum locked within the oil sands, so too will it unlock critical metals for centuries to come." More >

Examining the Case for (and Against) Gold
Source: Clif Droke  (10/20/12)
"Analysts and investors are divided as to what was the impetus behind the late-summer rally for gold." More >

Goldman Sachs' Ian Preston Surveys the Gold ETF vs Equity Battleground
Source: Sally Lowder of The Gold Report   (10/19/12)
Gold equities are in competition with gold ETFs for shareholder dollars. In this exclusive Gold Report interview, Goldman Sachs Managing Director Ian Preston discusses the steps gold companies must take to pull investors back from the ETF space and shares Goldman Sachs' outlook for the gold price over the next year or so. More >

Dip in Gold Prices Nothing to Fear; Long-Term Outlook Bullish
Source: Deborah Baratz, Money Morning  (10/19/12)
"Central banks all over the world appear willing to keep pumping more money into their economies, which will exert plenty of upward pressure on gold prices in the months ahead." More >

Correction in Gold and Silver Stocks Nearing End
Source: Jordan Roy-Byrne, The Daily Gold  (10/19/12)
"We are 19 days into the gold correction and we see some stealth signs of strength and signs of the correction nearing its end." More >

Inflation, Deflation, Gold and Central Banking
Source: Seeking Alpha, Paul Nathan  (10/19/12)
"Now that the Fed has decided to increase the money supply for the foreseeable future, investors are placing their bets on the policy's success or failure." More >

Coming Soon: $2,000/oz Gold, $40/oz Silver?
Source: Forbes, Tom Aspray  (10/19/12)
"The technical outlook suggests that we should see an end to the correction in the next few weeks. So it's important to have a buying strategy in place." More >