The Great Silver Chart
Source: Hubert Moolman  (9/10/12)
"Based on the fractals on the chart, we could still have about two years before we could get a top like we had in 1980." More >

California Gold Rush Mine Won't Be Reopened Yet
Source: Dorothy Kosich, Mineweb  (9/10/12)
"What investors had hoped would the reopening of California's second commercial-scale gold mine in the Mother Lode has been halted by deteriorating equity markets." More >

Korea's KORES Inks Greenland Rare Earth Exploration Deal
Source: Reuters  (9/10/12)
"The deal, signed during a visit to Greenland by South Korean President Lee Myung-bak on Sunday, reflects growing Asian interest in the minerals of the North Atlantic island." More >

Australia's Gold Production Declines in 2011/12
Source: Mining Weekly  (9/10/12)
"For the June quarter, gold output totaled 65t, some 2.5t or 4% greater than in the previous quarter." More >

Senior Golds Look to Juniors for Growth: David Goguen
Source: Sally Lowder of The Gold Report   (9/10/12)
Senior producers seeking to replenish depleted gold reserves will be looking to promising juniors to provide needed ounces, suggests Dave Goguen, director of institutional sales for PI Financial Corp. In this exclusive interview with The Gold Report, Goguen provides his views on where senior gold producers will be hunting and which companies will meet newly stringent criteria in the risk-averse but increasingly gold-hungry world marketplace of today—and tomorrow. More >

Is $1,740 Gold a Blip or a Trend? Notes from the Casey Research Summit
Source: JT Long of The Gold Report   (9/10/12)
When the price of gold shot up 2% Friday to settle at $1,738/ounce the first day of Casey Research's "Navigating the Politicized Economy" Summit, the faculty and attendees all had their own interpretation of what the metal was saying about the macroeconomy and the future of their portfolios. More >

Detour Gold Set to Open Canada's Biggest Gold Mine
Source: The Globe and Mail, Pav Jordan  (9/9/12)
"The Detour Lake mine marks the strongest sign yet of a trend toward massive, open-pit gold mining in Canada on a scale more commonly seen in desert geographies in Nevada, Chile or Africa." More >

Three Easy Steps to a Well-Timed Sell
Source: Greg Guenthner, Penny Sleuth  (9/9/12)
"I'm willing to bet that you spend close to 90% of your time buying or waiting to buy. Yet you completely neglect the work that goes into selling your positions. Reverse your thinking—and put selling first—and you'll fix most of your problems." More >

Mike Niehuser's Gold Investing Lessons from Banking School
Source: Special to The Gold Report   (9/7/12)
Mike Niehuser, founder of Beacon Rock Research, incorporates his banking school background into his mining industry analysis. In this exclusive interview with The Gold Report, he assesses the macroeconomic situation from a banker's perspective, explains why he is convinced gold is ready to take off and shares the names of companies poised to profit from mining in the northwestern United States. More >

Gold 'A Bit Overcooked' Ahead of US Nonfarms Data
Source: Ben Traynor, BullionVault  (9/7/12)
"Gold hit its highest level in six months at $1,713/oz Thursday, although it fell following the publication of a stronger-than-expected ADP Employment Report." More >

Gold Futures Rally Nearly 2% After Payrolls Report
Source: MarketWatch, Claudia Assis and Sara Sjolin  (9/7/12)
"Gold futures rallied Friday as a negative jobs report was thought to be a catalyst for additional U.S. economic stimulus coming sooner rather than later." More >

Canadian Group Aims for Mandatory Mining Transparency Standards
Source: Dorothy Kosich, Mineweb  (9/7/12)
"Amendment 1504, the U.S. law that mandates rules for transparent disclosure of mining company payments to government, could eventually make way for a mandatory Canadian regulatory disclosure." More >

Survey Participants Strongly Bullish On Gold Prices For Next Week
Source: Kitco, Debbie Carlson  (9/7/12)
"The big move in gold prices this week, after the bond-buying announcement by the European Central Bank and hopes for more stimulus from the Federal Reserve next week, has most participants in the weekly Kitco News Gold Survey suggesting values for the yellow metal could rise again." More >

Supra Mario, Bond Vigilante
Source: Adrian Ash, BullionVault  (9/7/12)
"German Bundesbank President Jens Weidmann asks if Supra Mario will punch and kick the weaker Eurozone states should they fail to fix their debts and deficits. But judging by the gold price in euros, now a tick or two below all-time record highs, plenty of private capital says no, he won't." More >

Gold Stock Breakout
Source: Adam Hamilton, Zeal Research   (9/7/12)
"After weathering a long consolidation followed by a major correction, gold stocks remain deeply out of favor . But this bearish sentiment is slowly yielding as gold powers higher in its usual autumn rally." More >

Gold: The Ultimate Crisis Barometer
Source: Clif Droke, Stockhouse  (9/6/12)
"It's no secret that one of gold's best attributes is as a barometer of economic crisis. It would appear that the yellow metal is once again serving this function." More >

Arie Papernick's Formula to Profit from Canada's Booming Gold Exploration
Source: Peter Byrne of The Gold Report  (9/5/12)
Bonanza-grade discoveries in precious and base metals are energizing exploration across Canada. Arie Papernick of Secutor Capital Management Corp. believes that unflappable investors stand to be rewarded for buying at the bottom of the market. In this exclusive interview with The Gold Report, Papernick points to promising developments for issuers prospecting in Canadian gold fields, including the mineral-rich black tar sands and the Labrador Trough. He also suggests techniques for preserving capital so to survive the coming black swans. More >

Insider Secrets for Finding Winning Colombia Juniors
Source: Sally Lowder of The Gold Report   (9/5/12)
Living in Colombia gives Paul Harris, publisher of the Colombia Gold Letter, invaluable first-hand knowledge of the exploration scene there. On a macro level, mining development in Colombia will create opportunities for massive wealth generation for company shareholders, for local communities and for the government and could move Colombia into the ranks of the developed nations. On a micro level, junior explorers still have to navigate through an as-yet-untested permitting process. Once the first junior does that, Harris sees the floodgates opening up. Read more in this exclusive Gold Report interview. More >

Gold Turns Higher, Keeps $1,700 in Sight
Source: MarketWatch, Claudia Assis and V. Phani Kumar  (9/5/12)
"Gold prices turned modestly higher Wednesday, with investors remaining tentative ahead of Thursday's European Central Bank policy meeting and the U.S. jobs report on Friday." More >

S. Africa's Mining Unrest Upsets Risk/Reward Outlook
Source: Reuters, Ed Stoddard   (9/5/12)
"SBG Securities forecast downsizing at almost all South Africa's mature gold operations over the next three years in the face of 'declining reserves and unrelenting inflationary pressures.'" More >

Gold Speculation Vehicles: Gold Stocks Versus Options
Source: Bob Kirtley, SK Trading Options  (9/5/12)
"Gold stocks used to be the best way for the ordinary investor to increase exposure in the search for higher returns. Nowadays, leverage is extremely easy to come by, even for retail investors." More >

Gold 'Has Seen the Lows for the Year'
Source: Ben Traynor, BullionVault  (9/5/12)
"A stronger Euro and weaker Dollar could see gold move above $1,700/oz." More >

Gold Standard To Be Reinstated Through The Back Door
Source: Chris Vermeulen, TheGoldAndOilGuy  (9/5/12)
"For the first time in over 30 years, talk of a return to the gold standard has become part of mainstream U.S. politics." More >

Investing in Silver: Double Down on the White Metal's Gains
Source: Don Miller, Money Morning  (9/5/12)
"Thanks to wildly bullish technical and fundamental indicators, silver could soon retest its 2011 high, or even blow through it." More >

Has QE3 Already Begun?
Source: Toby Connor, GoldScents  (9/4/12)
"With the recent breakout of the frustrating consolidation zone that always follows a B-Wave bottom I think gold is now ready to begin the initial phase of the next C-Wave advance." More >