By Michael Allan McCrae Nevada Copper (TSE:NCU) closed a US$200 million senior secured loan facility and copper concentrate off-take agreement with … [Read more...]

By Anthony Halley American investor Jim Rogers has been talking about investing in North Korea through coins and stamps for weeks and he finally … [Read more...]

By Michael Allan McCrae The BBC looks at all the claims for the purported amount of gold in the world and finds a lot of discrepancy. Gold has been … [Read more...]

By Vladimir Basov Russian MMC Norilsk Nickel, the world’s largest producer of nickel and palladium, announced today its unconsolidated financial … [Read more...]

By Anthony Halley Rick Rule spoke with King World News last week, suggesting that the Cyprus bank depositor 'haircut' was chiefly "something that … [Read more...]

By Cecilia Jamasmie Russia’s Magadan region, also known as Kolyma, is a name that evokes Stalin-era Gulag camps for a generation, where prisoners … [Read more...]

By Michael Allan McCrae Goldcorp will have sufficient water to meet its guidance for its Penasquito Mine this year and next, said COO George Burns … [Read more...]

By Cecilia Jamasmie For the first time in a decade, Canada's normally bustling mining sector failed to book a single Initial Public Offering (IPO) … [Read more...]

By Cecilia Jamasmie The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has restated that JPMorgan Chase & Co's planned exchange traded fund … [Read more...]

By Frik Els Gold producers increased their hedging for the first time in three  quarters according to the latest data about forward selling in the … [Read more...]

By Frik Els Chile's copper giant Codelco on Sunday said it is losing a "substantial" portion of its production as a strike at its Radomiro Tomic … [Read more...]

By Frik Els Gold exchange traded products (ETPs), more commonly referred to as ETFs or exchange traded funds, have utterly changed the market in … [Read more...]

By MINING.com News CNBC's All-America Economic Survey this year again found that Americans' favourite investment is gold, beating out all other … [Read more...]

By Frik Els The gold price dropped back through the $1,600 an ounce level on Thursday, the last trading day of the first quarter. Gold is down more … [Read more...]

By Frik Els The story of disgraced former senior Chinese leader Bo Xilai may be the most well-known, but further down the political and business … [Read more...]

By MINING.com News On Friday, a massive landslide crashing down a mountainside in a gold-mining area of Tibet buried 83 workers Chinese state-run … [Read more...]

By Jack Caldwell A reader of my blog sent me this link. It is a 2011 report on the economic benefits of the Fort Knox mine in Alaska. Although the … [Read more...]

By Vladimir Basov This year Russia plans to sell potential investors 86 prospective hardrock gold occurrences and deposits with exploration … [Read more...]

By Michael Allan McCrae Here comes Bitcoin. According to Google Insight which tracks search volume, interest in the peer-to-peer crypto-currency is … [Read more...]

By Michael Allan McCrae Rick Santelli, financial reporter for CNBC and the person credited with having catalyzed the Tea Party movement, dismissed … [Read more...]

By Anthony Halley "Miners" of the virtual currency bitcoin have come under increasing attack from hackers as the value of each coin has tripled in … [Read more...]

By Cecilia Jamasmie While gold climbed 6.2% in 2012, the bull-run for the precious metal ended in 2011 and the market will continue to feel the … [Read more...]

By Cecilia Jamasmie Anglo American Platinum (Amplats), the world's main producer of the precious metal, has extended for 30 days its talks with the … [Read more...]

By Kerry Hall Australia's central bank warned the country's national resources sector the future of companies servicing the mining industry is … [Read more...]

By Kerry Hall Mark O'Byrne, director of research at Ireland's GoldCore Ltd., predicts gold prices will hit an all-time record high most likely … [Read more...]

By Michael Allan McCrae With gold in unending doldrums, the precious metal crowd needs a place to go and Bitcoins may be fitting the bill. The … [Read more...]

By Anthony Halley A "doomsday scenario" drop to $1,000/ounce would "make half the gold industry worthless," according to Bank of America Merrill … [Read more...]

By Kerry Hall A Canadian financial research firm says the insider buying ratio on the Toronto Stock Exchange has nearly doubled since … [Read more...]

By Anthony Halley Last month I chatted with mining industry cost and labour experts at CostMine about the very high wages earned by Australian … [Read more...]

By Cecilia Jamasmie The Congolese government has lifted a night-time curfew enforced on Lubumbashi, the capital of mineral-rich Katanga province, … [Read more...]