World's Gold Deposits Are Drying Up
Source: Mining.com, Michael Allan McCrae  (7/31/12)
"Of the 439 mines or deposits over 1 Moz, only 189 are in production and have an owner with over $1.8B market capitalization. The remainder are owned by juniors, private companies or government-sponsored enterprises." More >

Gold and Silver Await the Starting Gun
Source: Bob Kirtley, SK Options Trading  (7/31/12)
"This week is another political week in that we have meetings across the board involving the ECB and the Federal Reserve followed by the job numbers on Friday. All of these have an effect on the investment community in that investment funds tend to stay on the sidelines until the direction of the markets becomes clear." More >

Most-Accurate Gold Forecasters Split over Gold's Next Step
Source: Bloomberg, Debarati Roy  (7/31/12)
"The only three analysts to correctly predict gold's biggest quarterly slump in four years are now split, reflecting investors' diverging views on the probability of central banks doing more to shore up growth." More >

Junior Miners Still Giving the Street Something to Talk About: Philip Ker
Source: Brian Sylvester of The Gold Report   (7/30/12)
Which junior miners are giving the Street something to talk about? Some shining examples of promising companies with good balance sheets do exist despite what seems like a market dominated by bad news. In this exclusive interview with The Gold Report, Philip Ker, an analyst with Vancouver-based Union Securities, shares the good news his latest site visits have revealed about projects in Nevada and Mexico. More >

Some Smaller Gold and Silver Miners Pay Decent Dividends, Too
Source: Kip Keen, Mineweb  (7/30/12)
"There aren't many precious metal producers issuing dividends, but there is a good handful, and they are serious about sharing profits." More >

Gold Investors Waiting for Signal
Source: Ben Traynor, BullionVault  (7/30/12)
"Prices for gold bullion fell below $1,620/oz during Monday morning's London session, slightly below last week's close, while stocks gained and U.S. Treasuries fell, with markets focused on key monetary policy decisions due later in the week." More >

Gold ETFs Turn Higher on ECB Pledge as Central Banks Meet
Source: ETF Trends  (7/30/12)
"Silver ETP holdings have been on a modest upward trend since early July, indicating some investors view the recent silver price range as a good entry point." More >

Silver Prices Ready for QE3
Source: Jonathan Yates, Money Morning  (7/30/12)
"Just look at what silver prices did after Bernanke announced QE2. From August 2010 to August 2011, silver prices gained 141% to hit more than $43/oz." More >

Challenging the Paradigms of Investing
Source: Frank Holmes, U.S. Global Investors  (7/30/12)
"For all the hype over recent tech IPOs, did you know that investors have lost more money in Groupon and Facebook than the entire assets in all of the gold funds?" More >

The Federal Reserve, Gold, Oil, & the Dollar's Demise
Source: Chris Vermeulen, The Gold and Oil Guy  (7/29/12)
"Over the longer term, a weak dollar is positive for precious metals and other hard assets." More >

Harry Dent's Formula for Surviving the Great Bust Ahead
Source: Karen Roche of The Gold Report  (7/27/12)
With a perfect storm brewing on the horizon, investors should be building their cash cache and running for cover, warns Harry Dent, author of The Great Crash Ahead. In this exclusive interview with The Gold Report, Dent explains how central bank stimulus programs are fighting a futile battle because a huge army of aging baby boomers has reached the stage in their economic lifecycles when they curb spending. How is Dent preparing for the gathering storm? Read on. . . More >

Gold Set for Gain on Week
Source: Ben Traynor, BullionVault  (7/27/12)
"Spot market gold bullion hit a five-week high at $1,625/oz during Friday morning's London trading, on course for a weekly gain that would see the pattern of alternating up and down weeks stretched to week number 11." More >

Hong Kong's Largest Gold Bullion Vault Signals Rising Asian Wealth
Source: Chanyaporn Chanjaroen, Mineweb   (7/27/12)
"Hong Kong's largest gold-storage facility, which can hold about 22% of the bullion now in Fort Knox, will open in September to meet rising demand from banks and the wealthy." More >

Gold Pares Gain After GDP Data but Remains Higher After Technical Momentum
Source: Kitco News, Allen Sykora  (7/27/12)
"Traders have been keying off major U.S. economic reports for some time now as they try to gauge whether data will mean any more monetary easing from the Federal Open Market Committee." More >

On the Hunt for a Tenbagger Gold Miner
Source: Brisbane Times, Richard Hemming  (7/27/12)
"There are some tenbagger gold miners out there, says one of Australia's best fund managers, if you know where to dig." More >

Platinum: 'Little Silver' v. Big Gold
Source: Adrian Ash, BullionVault  (7/27/12)
"Gold's use is ultimately social, having been a thing of beauty, symbol of power, store of value and a means of exchange since the earliest civilizations, while platinum is primarily an industrial metal, which isn't helping platinum versus the gold price one bit right now." More >

Investing in Silver: States Support Move to Metals as Dollar Weakens
Source: Diane Alter, Money Morning  (7/27/12)
"Worries that the U.S. dollar is on the cusp of a collapse have lawmakers from more than a dozen states (up from just three in the past few years) seeking approval from their state governments to either issue their own alternative currency or use gold and silver as a currency for settlement of state-related transactions." More >

Healthcare Reform Could Radically Change Your Benefit Plan
Source: David Zeiler, Money Morning   (7/27/12)
"Most employers (71%) said they expected to continue sponsoring health insurance plans, but many are considering major changes as more of the healthcare reform law kicks in." More >

Is Gold Ready to Run to All-Time Highs?
Source: David Banister, Market Trend Forecast  (7/26/12)
"I fully expect gold to continue past the $1,900/oz area and run to $2,300/oz or higher in a Wave 5 rally into the summer of 2013." More >

Two Keys to Gold's Next Breakout
Source: Clif Droke, Gold & Silver Stock Report  (7/26/12)
"If history repeats, gold will, by this fall, be poised to benefit from both a relative strength increase as well as a historic long-term 'oversold' signal." More >

London's Olympic Gold Medal Worth the Most in the History of the Games
Source: Forbes, Anthony DeMarco  (7/26/12)
"The 'podium value' of the London gold medal is worth approximately $708, according to the World Gold Council. It is the highest value of any gold medal in the history of the modern games, primarily because of the record high prices for gold and silver." More >

How to Find the Next Tenbagger in Peru: Maria Belen Vega and Ricardo Carrion
Source: Alec Gimurtu of The Gold Report   (7/25/12)
In a tough market for junior gold shares over the past three years, Peruvian mining stocks have outperformed the mining indexes. Peru is a booming economy with well-defined mining laws and a vocal mining protest movement that could be playing a constructive role in future development. In this exclusive interview with The Gold Report, Maria Belen Vega and Ricardo Carrión of Kallpa Securities in Lima, Peru, analyze the protest situation and clarify the role of mining as one of the leading sectors of the economy. Junior companies they follow include mine developers, producers and a "pure Peru play" explorer; some of these companies could repeat the outsized performance of the last few years and become tenbaggers. More >

Gold Rallies with Euro
Source: Ben Traynor, BullionVault  (7/25/12)
"Gold prices have tended to rally this year in advance of events such as Fed announcements and Congressional testimony by Fed chairman Ben Bernanke, but have subsequently retreated in the absence of explicit signals that more QE would take place." More >

Gold Will Regain Its Safe-Haven Appeal
Source: Lawrence Williams, Mineweb  (7/25/12)
"More and more of the people will stop being fooled by governments and their fiat currencies and move to protect whatever wealth they may have left. And the likely route for this will be by investing in gold." More >

Potential for Stimulus Supports Gold
Source: Ira Epstein, The Linn Group  (7/25/12)
"Seasonally speaking, gold has entered the second half of the year where prices, at least on a seasonal basis, tend to have upside bias due to factors having little to do with world economies." More >