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By Minefund.com |
August 8, 2011
The last time that general equities were this cheap relative to gold or silver was 1991 and 1987 respectively. Unfortunately, it's not merely confined to general equities. Precious metal miners have plunged to very low valuation levels in recent weeks.
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By Minefund.com |
July 7, 2011
At that half way mark of 2011 a handful of precious metal price forecasters are proving hard to dislodge from the top rankings. Two have been especially prominent in maintaining their overall high rankings despite considerable volatility.
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By Minefund.com |
April 1, 2011
Timing will be critical. Silver is bound to overshoot at some point and become excessively expensive relative to gold. However, the window to swap positions out of silver and into gold will be very small if the last century is anything to go by.
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By Minefund.com |
March 24, 2011
Gold equity investors have been cheered by recent company promises to improve dividends. The pledges have been underwritten by thickening margins, especially recently as gold prices outpaced input costs for the first time in several years.
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By Minefund.com |
February 11, 2011
GoldMoney founder James Turk says the Dow Jones Industrial Average to gold ratio will again revert to one, and that's where his $8,000/oz prediction lands.
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By Minefund.com |
February 10, 2011
Any appearance by Ivanhoe Mining's Robert Friedland is considered an actionable event. So when he asked to speak at Mining Indaba in Cape Town, it caught a lot of attention.
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By Minefund.com |
February 8, 2011
Graham Birch, arguably one of the best hard commodity investors of recent times, has warned mining companies not to take their investors for granted.
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By Minefund.com |
February 8, 2011
Investors attending Mining Indaba heard two opinions on miners hedging their bullion output. One view was scathing in criticism of mining company hedging incompetence. The other suggests that the time may be ripe for limited hedging.
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By Minefund.com |
February 8, 2011
South Africa risks surrendering its leading position as a competitive coal exporter thanks to "underfunded and arthritic" infrastructure and logistics for the country's extensive "black gold" resources.
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By Minefund.com |
February 2, 2011
Kudos! It is high time that one of the companies did this, and it should become a benchmark for the industry to commit to pay a percentage of their operating margins as dividends.