Balmoral Resources: Two Projects, One Vision, Proven Share Price Performance
Source: Taylor Thoen, BTV/The Gold Report   (6/18/14)
With two 100%-owned, shallow, high-grade properties in Canada churning out results and millions of dollars in the bank to keep the drills turning, Balmoral Resources is taking advantage of elevated nickel prices and a quiet junior mining backdrop to turn investors' heads. President and CEO Darin Wagner shares his focus for moving both projects forward. More >

Less Correlation Among Commodities Demands More Careful Selection: Philip Richards
Source: JT Long of The Gold Report  (6/16/14)
Commodities from coal to gold once traded in close correlation, but today the graph looks helter-skelter. This means Philip Richards of RAB Capital has had to think on his feet when choosing names for his company's Special Situations Fund. In this interview with The Gold Report, Richards explains how commodities markets have changed in recent years, and he lists companies of interest in the gold, silver, nickel, vanadium, zinc and oil and gas sectors. More >

Van Eck Fund Manager Joe Foster Is Building for the Upswing
Source: JT Long of The Gold Report  (6/11/14)
Lackluster gold should find some of its sparkle in the second half of 2014, according to Joe Foster, fund manager at Van Eck Associates. The prospect of loosened import and tax restrictions in India is one potential catalyst, and stabilization in the exchange-traded funds is another positive. He shares with The Gold Report his perspective on the likely state of merger and acquisition activity in the gold equity space this year, and discusses companies positioned to ride the upswing. More >

Leave No Rock Unturned to Find Natural Resource Stocks with Game-Changing Catalysts
Source: Jason Mallin of The Gold Report  (6/9/14)
Renowned investor Peter Lynch once said, "The person who turns over the most rocks wins the game." All resource investors should be turning over rocks, but who has time to track hundreds of companies, to visit projects, to meet with management? The Gold Report has asked Sprott's Rick Rule, Canaccord Genuity's Joe Mazumdar and Oil & Gas Investments Bulletin's Keith Schaefer to identify a select group of natural resource companies they feel are poised to make a move before the end of the year. We will be tracking these precious metals and oil & gas companies with game-changing catalysts on the newly launched Natural Resources Watchlist. More >

Finally, Good News for Mining in Peru: Ricardo Carrión and Alberto Arispe
Source: Peter Byrne of The Mining Report  (6/3/14)
Ricardo Carrión and Alberto Arispe of Peru-based Kallpa Securities have a boots-on-the-ground view of the politics, legal battles and investment climate for precious metals mining in the Andes. In this interview with The Mining Report, Arispe and Carrión detail the new, positive developments afoot in this region and explain why investors should get involved now, before the rest of the world catches on.
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Your Personal Gold Standard
Source: James Rickards, The Daily Reckoning  (6/3/14)
"If you think that the value of paper money will be in some jeopardy, or confidence in paper money may be lost, one way to protect yourself is by buying gold, and there's nothing stopping you." More >

Ian Parkinson's Copper and Gold Names for a Fresh Round of M&A
Source: Brian Sylvester of The Gold Report  (6/2/14)
Growth for the sake of growth is over, but that doesn't mean mergers and acquisitions in the mining space are finished, says Ian Parkinson, director of equity research-mining with GMP Securities L.P. Parkinson expects a fresh round of takeover bids for underperforming single asset producers and developers that could move the needle for state-owned enterprises and multinationals. In this interview with The Gold Report, we picked Parkinson's brain for some likely targets. More >

Gold Prices Bounce from 4-Month Lows
Source: Adrian Ash, BullionVault   (6/2/14)
"Trading more than 4% down from this time last week, gold prices rallied off $1,241 per ounce as European stock markets followed Wall Street's Friday finish to reach new record and multiyear highs." More >

Louis James: Are You Ready for an Early Shopping Season?
Source: JT Long of The Gold Report  (5/28/14)
Sometimes hindsight can lead to foresight. Casey Research's Louis James says now that the market seems to agree that December was the bottom for gold, the value of these companies is becoming evident to investors, and majors could start going on a shopping spree. In this interview with The Gold Report, James sees the Osisko bidding war as a harbinger for deals to come, and discusses companies that could offer shoppers real bargains. More >

Jeff Wright: Miners that Create Their Own Momentum
Source: JT Long of The Mining Report  (5/23/14)
Jeff Wright of H.C. Wainwright & Co. doesn't anticipate a major shift in the price of gold near-term, so he doesn't expect the gold price to provide momentum for mining company stocks. Instead, he's looking at companies that can provide their own upward movement. Wright, an analyst, finds some promising candidates in some unlikely places, like environmentally friendly California, according to this interview with The Mining Report. More >

Gold Standard Ventures Consolidates Southern Carlin Trend District
Source: J. Alec Gimurtu of The Gold Report  (5/21/14)
All serious gold investors know the Carlin Trend of Nevada is one of the most prolific gold producing regions of the world. Is it possible that there is an undiscovered district, not just a deposit, within that region that was missed by the majors? Jon Awde, CEO of Gold Standard Ventures, discusses how spectacular drill results have guided Gold Standard Ventures to focus on creating the southernmost mining district of the Carlin Trend—the Railroad/Pinion District. At more than 40 square miles, the district is large enough to potentially sustain a mid-sized producer. In this interview with The Gold Report, Awde describes the unique challenges of proving up a series of deposits that are in the shadow of the majors and for the first time all combined under one company in a single mining district. More >

Pierre Lassonde: Mining Cycles Are Good for Royalty Companies and Investors
Source: Kevin Michael Grace of The Gold Report  (5/21/14)
Pierre Lassonde revolutionized investing with the creation of the first gold royalty company. Three decades later, he is as confident in this model as ever, especially considering the difficulties of the majors in discovering large, high-grade reserves. In this interview with The Gold Report, this director and former chairman of the World Gold Council discusses the significance of the shift in gold ownership from West to East, the problem of mining scale and the results of the industry's failure to develop new prospecting technology. More >

Time Is the Trigger for Equities and Bullion: Charles Oliver
Source: Brian Sylvester of The Gold Report  (5/19/14)
Charles Oliver, lead portfolio manager with the Sprott Gold and Precious Minerals Fund, believes the only thing between investors and bigger investment returns on precious metals equities and bullion, especially silver, is time. In this interview with The Gold Report, Oliver discusses silver and gold demand drivers, as well as portfolio ideas that figure to get bigger with time as the trigger. More >

Michael Curran's Three-Pronged Approach to Selecting Gold Equities
Source: Brian Sylvester of The Gold Report  (5/14/14)
With more than 2,000 junior mining companies currently trading, it's often difficult to sort out the promising gold equities. That's why The Gold Report talked with Beacon Securities Managing Director and Analyst Michael Curran about some of his favorite ideas to unearth equities that add value and gold exposure to your portfolio. More >

What Will Shake Retail Investors Out of Their Shell Shock?
Source: JT Long of The Mining Report  (5/13/14)
Mining companies may just have one more year of tough going. Speaking about what he calls "the trough of a turning point," John Kaiser of Kaiser Research Online makes the case for retail investors to look seriously at discovery exploration while waiting for metals prices—gold in particular—to move back into a supercycle. In this interview with The Mining Report, Kaiser shares the names of underpriced gold, silver and zinc juniors with staying power, and explains why scandium is a metal that could save the world. More >

Juniors Operating from the Driver's Seat: Adrian Day
Source: Brian Sylvester of The Gold Report  (5/12/14)
Adrian Day has spent years making money for clients by steering them into and out of positions in precious metals equities. While higher commodity prices are always welcome, the founder of Adrian Day Asset Management says in this interview with The Gold Report that he maneuvers toward more telltale fundamentals like strong balance sheets and sound business plans. He believes investors should shift toward companies helmed by experienced managers with skin in the game and with exceptional projects, and names a handful that fit the bill. More >

John Mauldin's Knock on the Side of the Head to World Leaders
Source: Karen Roche and JT Long of The Gold Report  (5/7/14)
The future will be decided in a race between global advances in demand for resources, complex technology and biotech innovation, and growing sovereign debt. In this interview with The Gold Report, Thoughts from the Frontline author John Mauldin points to the sectors that could benefit from the upside of improving world demand and the possible downside of a fiscal collapse in the geographic hot spots of China, Japan and Europe. More >

Duncan Hughes' Quartet of High-Grade Winners
Source: Kevin Michael Grace of The Gold Report  (4/30/14)
With gold hovering around $1,300 an ounce, there's not much room for error, says Duncan Hughes of RFC Ambrian. In this interview with The Gold Report, Hughes counsels that investors should seek high-grade, low-cost projects with exploration upside in stable jurisdictions. He suggests three such companies in West Africa and another with silver, gold and antimony resources in Chile and Australia. More >

China Holds the Keys to the Gold Market
Source: Frank Holmes, U.S. Global Investors  (4/28/14)
"We are witnessing China transform into an economic powerhouse, and now, the world's largest gold market!." More >

Thibaut Lepouttre's Commodity Plays in a Sideways Market
Source: Brian Sylvester of The Gold Report  (4/28/14)
Metals prices have been trading sideways for some time. How can you make gains in your portfolio when commodity prices are in a stalemate? In this interview with The Gold Report, Thibaut Lepouttre, editor of Caesars Report, talks about ways to play metals from gold to copper and tungsten in a market with weak price movement, and scans the globe to find 11 potential winners. More >

Prepared for the Attack of the Short Sellers: Joe Reagor
Source: Peter Byrne of The Gold Report  (4/23/14)
Despite the ongoing attack of the short-sellers, the fundamentals of gold and silver production are increasingly robust. ROTH Capital's Joe Reagor tells The Gold Report why he believes the price of gold is steaming toward $1,500/oz, with silver prices following in the wake. Reagor highlights several junior precious metals miners in a market that is out to prove the bears on Wall Street wrong. More >

How Will Gold Respond to Declining Discovery?
Source: Henry Bonner, Daily Reckoning  (4/23/14)
"At $1,900 per ounce of gold, even mediocre finds could make money." More >

Willem Middelkoop and Terence van der Hout: Turnaround Stories Revolve Around Proven Management
Source: JT Long of The Gold Report  (4/21/14)
Willem Middelkoop and Terence van der Hout of the Netherlands-based Commodity Discovery Fund believe that when the world's reserve currency is reset away from the U.S. dollar in the next decade, gold prices will rise and mining equities will follow. Van der Hout and Middelkoop tell The Gold Report that by focusing on producers, near-producers and turnaround stories, they plan to capitalize on the opportunities in North America, Africa and beyond. More >

Latest GFMS Gold Survey Reports Record 2013 Gold Production
Source: Lawrence Williams, Mineweb  (4/17/14)
"GFMS puts 2013 new mine production of gold at a record 3,022 tonnes, a 6% gain over 2012." More >

Salman Partners' Raymond Goldie: Copper Is Pathological and Suffers from SAD, but It Has Value
Source: JT Long of The Gold Report  (4/16/14)
Dr. Copper may be in a supercycle, but there are serious problems. In this interview with The Gold Report, Salman Partners' Vice President of Commodity Economics Raymond Goldie explains why even though the base metal acts pathologically and has a bad case of seasonal affective disorder, these six equities are priced below their intrinsic value. More >