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By The Mad Hedge Fund Trader |
May 17, 2012
Panic is on deck, to use the baseball terminology that my foreign readers are often attempting to decipher. That is the only conclusion one can reach after getting gob smacked by the price action.
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By Scott Wright |
February 6, 2012
It only took eleven years, but in 2011 global gold-mine production has finally returned to pre-bull levels. With 2011’s volume expected to come in at around 88 million ounces, we’ll see a new all-time production high.
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By Roman Baudzus |
October 19, 2011
This past week thousands of mine workers in Indonesia erected road blockades in an effort to halt production at the Grasberg Mine, situated in the east of the country. The Grasberg mine is one of the largest gold and copper deposits in the world.
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By Larry D. Spears |
September 19, 2011
Gold prices have had a phenomenal run over the past year, but the distinguishing feature of the market in recent weeks has been extreme volatility - volatility that has many investors nervous about protecting the big profits they've rolled up.
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By Frank Holmes |
August 30, 2011
One market trend that seems to be attracting more and more attention is the large performance gap between gold bullion and gold stocks. The price of gold bullion has increased roughly 28% in 2011, while the S&P/TSX Gold Index was recently down 1%.
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By Mark O'Byrne |
July 25, 2011
Gold surged 1.4% ($23) from $1,600.90/oz to a new record nominal of $1,624.07/oz within an hour of the open in Asia. Gold reached new highs due to continuing uncertainty and theater regarding the debt ceiling negotiations in Washington.
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By The Mad Hedge Fund Trader |
May 12, 2011
No one has been singing louder the praises of the predictive power of copper prices (CU) louder than me this year. They call the red metal "Dr. Copper" because of its uncanny ability to forecast the future direction of the global economy.
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By Adam Hamilton |
July 12, 2010
In today's ever-more interrelated financial world, China's stock-market action is growing increasingly influential everywhere else.
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By Minefund.com |
June 28, 2010
Collectively they represent 76 million tonnes of copper resources; 6,000 tonnes of gold; 11,000 tonnes of silver; and 1.8 million tonnes of molybdenum.
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By Peter Szafranski |
February 22, 2010
The holy grail of junior stock picking is to find a company caught in a momentary lag between proving up its resources -- and getting out the word.
