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 >

Gold's Fall Blamed on Speculative Sellers
Source: Ben Traynor, BullionVault  (10/19/12)
"Heading into the weekend, the gold price in dollars looks set for its second successive weekly fall, the first time this has happened since May." More >

Platinum Price May Outperform Gold and Silver as SA Strike Intensifies
Source: Jeb Handwerger, Gold Stock Trades  (10/19/12)
"Once major hedge funds and large banks enter the arena. . .watch out for an explosive move. Now is the time to look for platinum projects in mining-friendly jurisdictions." More >

Stock Bull Topping
Source: Adam Hamilton, Zeal Intelligence  (10/19/12)
"Few things, if any, are more important for stock investors to understand than the bull-bear cycles." More >

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Brent Cook and Quinton Hennigh Use Geology to Find Winners
Source: Brian Sylvester of The Gold Report   (10/17/12)
In today's fast-paced market, investors sometimes forget that mining is an intricate and time-consuming science experiment. Investors who can stomach the risk and the wait are generally the ones who profit the most. Brent Cook, editor of Exploration Insights newsletter, and Quinton Hennigh, a geologist and contributor to the newsletter, believe that investments in prospect generators have yielded some of their best investments, plodding along slowly to unearth some often spectacular projects. In this exclusive interview with The Gold Report, Cook and Hennigh discuss why prospect generators are worth the wait. More >

Gold: Inflation Hedge or Something More?
Source: Sam Kirtley, SK Options Trading  (10/17/12)
"If one is worried about slowing growth, currency depreciation, political and financial certainty, unemployment and war, buy gold." More >

The Golden Age
Source: Guiseppe Borelli, Primary Trend  (10/17/12)
"I continue to see a lot more upside potential for gold over the next four to six months, and the same can be said for silver as reduced demand from industrial users increases the pressure on financial investors to keep an already stressed supply surplus down." More >

Your Gold and Silver Questions Answered
Source: Byron King, The Daily Reckoning  (10/17/12)
"Yes, there were up and down periods for gold and silver, so timing matters to some extent. But, generally, it's been good if you think long term." More >

Afghan Gold Being Chased by Ex-Special Forces Entrepreneurs
Source: Lawrence Williams, Mineweb  (10/17/12)
"U.S. studies, drawing heavily on previous Soviet geological findings, had come up with Afghan mineral resources which could be worth in excess of $1 trillion and include copper, iron ore, gold, huge deposits of lithium, rare earths and others." More >

Euro-Gold Hits Six-Week Low
Source: Adrian Ash, BullionVault  (10/17/12)
"Gold recovered from an early dip in London Wednesday morning, rising back to $1,750/oz as European stock markets also rose and the single currency hit its best level in more than a month." More >

HSBC Expects $1,900/oz Gold by Year-End, Ups 2013 Forecast
Source: Kitco News, Allen Sykora  (10/17/12)
"HSBC upped its average forecast for 2013 to $1,850/oz from $1,770, listing a potential range of $1,550 to near $2,000. It also upped its 2014 forecast to $1,775 from $1,750." More >

Mining Industry Outlook 'Vastly Improved' in October: CEO Survey
Source: Dorothy Kosich, Mineweb  (10/17/12)
"A survey of 125 mining executives internationally reveals that the outlook for the mining industry 'has vastly improved' in the last four months, says Andrew Pollard, president of Vancouver's Mining Recruitment Group Ltd." More >

The DOD's Bold Move Will Reward Rare Earths Investors: Jeb Handwerger
Source: Brian Sylvester of The Critical Metals Report  (10/16/12)
The U.S. Department of Defense has made a bold move to support a North American rare earth element project, and it's made waves in the market. In this exclusive interview with The Critical Metals Report, Jeb Handwerger, editor of Gold Stock Trades, explains what this means for investors and what companies may be the sector's next big success stories. More >

What Will the Price of Gold Be in January 2014?
Source: Jeff Clark, Casey Research  (10/16/12)
"The largest economies of the world are all grossly devaluing their currencies. Gold and silver will be direct beneficiaries–along with mining companies–starting with rising prices." More >

When Greg McCoach Picks Mining Stocks, It's Location, Location, Location
Source: Zig Lambo of The Gold Report  (10/15/12)
The looming financial meltdown will affect the global economy and the U.S. will not escape, says Greg McCoach. Whatever happens, the precious metals are bound to fly, as investors scramble for tangible cover. Mining stocks will be major beneficiaries of the soaring metals prices, but where mines are situated will be an important factor as governments try to get a bigger piece of the action. In this exclusive interview with The Gold Report, McCoach names some favorite companies that he expects to do well in the coming turbulent times. More >

Copper Shenanigans from Beijing
Source: Rick Mills, Ahead of the Herd  (10/15/12)
"According to the Beijing Antaike Information Development Co., copper consumption is expected to expand this year at the slowest rate since 1997." More >

Silver Prices: $50 by 2013?
Source: Tony Daltorio, Money Morning  (10/15/12)
"Silver is the only major commodity not to have reached a new all-time high in the decade-long commodity bull market." More >

Cheap Gold Stocks
Source: Adam Hamilton, Zeal Research  (10/15/12)
"While sentiment (greed and fear) dominates short-term stock price swings, over the long run stock prices are nearly exclusively determined by fundamentals." More >

You Can Print Money as Much as You Like, but You Can't Print Gold
Source: Lawrence Williams, Mineweb  (10/15/12)
"For years, institutions like the Federal Reserve and most central bankers have publicly stated that gold is effectively an irrelevance—yet they continue to hold huge amounts of it." More >

Gold Drops Below $1,750/oz
Source: Ben Traynor, BullionVault  (10/15/12)
"In New York, the difference between the aggregate number of long (bullish) and short (bearish) contracts held by noncommercial gold futures and options traders on the Comex, known as the speculative net long, rose for the eighth week running in the week ended last Tuesday, according to Commodity Futures Trading Commission data." More >

Troubles in South Africa's Mining Sector Start to Affect the Economy
Source: The Telegraph, Emma Rowley and Jessica Winch  (10/14/12)
"South Africa's strikes have now affected some 28% of its platinum production, or 17% of global production, according to the Deutsche team. It believes that production losses have the potential to drive up the price of platinum so that it trades at a premium to gold." More >

Is Vanguard About to Release a Gold ETF to the Market?
Source: ETF Daily News, Christian Magoon  (10/14/12)
"The launch of a Vanguard gold ETF appears to be an easy extension of Vanguard's approach in the ETF business to go after large buckets of existing ETF assets with newly launched low-cost options." More >

Gold Hunters Unearth Riches, and Conflict, in Latin America
Source: McClatchy Newspapers, Tim Johnson  (10/13/12)
"Steadily high prices for gold are having a dramatic impact on parts of Latin America, bringing a flood of foreign investment and stirring a goldbug among wildcat miners in the jungles." More >

How to Profit from the Imbalance in Platinum and Zinc Inventories: Matthew O'Keefe
Source: Peter Byrne of The Gold Report  (10/12/12)
Now is the moment to take a hard look at the state of supply for zinc and platinum, says Matthew O'Keefe of Mackie Research Capital Corporation. In an exclusive interview with The Gold Report, O'Keefe explains how market fundamentals are about to pop up some serious game changers in this space. International demand for zinc and the platinum group metals is booming, but the global supply is about to seriously contract. Well-financed mining corporations will celebrate, while others miss the party. More >

Gold and Silver Capped Until After the US Election?
Source: Business Insider  (10/12/12)
"Prices may remain contained until after the U.S. election but we expect that soon after, precious metal prices will again surge." More >