What a Day! Gold Chasing US$2,600
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Yesterday's big news was the incredible breakout in gold prices, with the December contract going out on session highs at US$2,587.60, with the high tick a mere dime higher at US$2,587.70.

SPDR Gold Shares ETF (GLD:NYSE) followed suit with a 1.76% advance.

Silver outperformed gold, which is great and required if this next leg of the bull market is going to kick retail investors off the sidelines and into the juniors like Getchell Gold Corp. (GTCH:CSE; GGLDF:OTCQB), which closed at its highest in months at CA$0.15.

I am absolutely convinced that most subscribers roll their eyes when I constantly predict higher prices for GTCH/GGLDF (with total and complete justification), but surely to Heaven, a US$2,600 per ounce gold price will bring out the animal spirits in the younger generation of investors that control the capital flows these days.

The breakout in gold is also good news for Fitzroy Minerals Inc. (FTZ:TSX.V; FTZFF:OTCQB) whose news release today on Polimet and subsequent follow-up from CEO Merlin Marr-Johnson in a private email to me really emphasized the gold-centric aspects of the project.

That is why I have so much of my investible capital into gold or copper-gold exploration and/or development stories. That is why I shifted away from lithium and uranium and went with the two most promising metals for 2024 and beyond, and while copper has been battling the "China slowing" narrative since the springtime, gold has taken up the slack and risen to its rightful seat on the throne of all commodities.

With the CA$0.15 unit hanging over the FTZ/FTZFF market right now, it is obvious that there are participants looking to swap their free-trading paper for the unit to secure the free half-warrant so as soon as the deal closes (next week is my guess), I see the market moving quickly into the CA$0.20’s as preparations for drilling at Buen Retiro get underway.

Speaking of Buen Retiro, I have had a number of questions posed that involve uncertainty over the TSX approval of the deal. There is concern that the deal will get nuked by some 30-something Millennial looking to make a name for him/herself by playing "hardass" on the approval.

Well, that might happen, but the odds are long and thin, given that the registered owners of the Buen Retiro project are 1,000% in favor of the Fitzroy proposal. The way I see it, Ptolemy Mining (which owns Buen Retiro) has one project and has no way of raising money to advance things, while Fitzroy has two barnburner Chilean copper-gold projects (with Polimet now moving into the frontrunner position thanks to the geochemical survey results) and a highly prospective Argentinian gold prospect called Taquetren — AND — they have a proven ability to raise money through the publicly-traded vehicle.

We know that "1+3 should equal 4" but with the immense calibre of the Buen Retiro project, the sum total of these projects is close to 8 than 4. Make no mistake: Buen Retiro is that good. It is a company-maker. I have only seen this perhaps five other times in my 45-year career, and each time, the project enriched shareholders in a material manner.