George Soros Joins Michael Ballanger on the Goldbug Side of the Market
Source: Brian Sylvester of The Gold Report  (6/14/13)
In his 36-year career, Michael Ballanger, director of wealth management at Richardson GMP, has seen good markets and bad. As a true contrarian, he sees opportunity in undervalued precious metals assets and lauds George Soros' recently reported large gold-related positions. In this interview with The Gold Report, Ballanger discusses market sentiment and some companies that he expects to take off when the market turns. More >

Gold Has Stood the Test of Time: Michael and Chris Berry
Source: George S. Mack of The Gold Report  (6/13/13)
The synergy of temperament and intellect has fostered much success for the father-son team of Michael Berry, editor of Morning Notes, and Chris Berry, founder of House Mountain Partners LLC. In this Father's Day interview, the Berrys reveal what they've learned from each other's investment strategies over the years and why they are still bullish on gold. More >

Physical Gold and Paper Gold Battling for Supremacy: Brien Lundin
Source: Alec Gimurtu of The Gold Report  (6/12/13)
The recent drop in gold prices is a confirmation, or a revelation, to investors of the battle between the physical and paper gold markets. In this interview with The Gold Report, Brien Lundin, editor of Gold Newsletter, predicts the timing of a handoff from Asian physical demand to Western speculative demand and assesses the readiness of the junior market to respond to a revival in commodity prices. Plus, in a tip to Father's Day, he discusses his efforts to groom the next generation of investors.
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Tug of War in Gold and Silver
Source: Ben Traynor, BullionVault  (6/12/13)
"Since falling sharply in April, gold has swung either side of $1400 an ounce, with the gold price falling as low as $1337 and as high as $1478." More >

Time to Stress Test Your Resolve in the Gold Markets
Source: Jeff Clark, Casey Research  (6/12/13)
"Investors must be willing to hold through down or sideways markets to realize profits." More >

Some Like It Hot: Lisa Morrison on the Outlook for Industrial Metals
Source: Brian Sylvester of The Metals Report  (6/11/13)
Commodities may have broken out of a commodity supercycle and could be hitting a cyclical trough. Lisa Morrison, the principal consultant of CRU Group in Philadelphia, analyzes the price outlook for 26 commodities over the next four years and gives them a temperature rating from hot to freezing. In this interview with The Metals Report, Morrison, using this rating methodology, details which commodities she expects to offer the best upside for investors and which to avoid. More >

Keeping Stakes Small: How Some Companies Are Navigating the Gold M&A Market: Keith Phillips
Source: Brian Sylvester of The Gold Report  (6/10/13)
Bigger isn't always better, as recent acquisitions by Agnico-Eagle Mines Ltd., Coeur d'Alene Mines Corp. and New Gold Inc. suggest. These companies are choosing to make multiple smaller deals as they keep the M&A thesis alive. In this interview with The Gold Report, Keith Phillips, head of Cowen and Company's Metals & Mining Investment Banking Group, tells investors what they can learn from those deals, the biggest problems facing the gold equities market and how they can take advantage of what he calls the strongest debt-financing markets in history. More >

What Is the Cost of Mining Gold?
Source: Visual Capitalist  (6/10/13)
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The Three Ways Frank Holmes and Brian Hicks Play the Junior Resource Space
Source: JT Long of The Gold Report  (6/7/13)
The recent volatility in the gold market has investors taking a second look at their strategies. In this interview with The Gold Report, Frank Holmes and Brian Hicks of U.S. Global Investors discuss their criteria for investment decisions, the factors they think will affect the gold sector and how ETFs are distorting the gold equities market. More >

Sprott's Michael Kosowan Asks: Are You Swayed or Afraid?
Source: Special to The Gold Report from the Cambridge House World Resource Investment Conference   (6/5/13)
Many investors are wondering if the words "gold" and "opportunity" can coexist in the same sentence. Michael Kosowan of Sprott Global Resource Investments answers with a resounding "yes." He believes in the Pareto Principle—80% of the gain is derived from 20% of the stocks—and that contrarians will be rewarded in this "wonderfully miserable market." To find that 20%, Kosowan outlines the criteria he uses when sizing up a junior mining company. More >

How to Play Nevada's Gold Rush
Source: Matt Insley, The Daily Reckoning  (6/5/13)
"According to the U.S. Geological Survey, Nevada mined over 5.4 Moz of gold in 2012. That accounts for 75% of domestic production." More >

Gold Stock Seller's Remorse
Source: Jeff Clark, Casey Research  (6/4/13)
"I think sellers abandoned gold equities prematurely on weak grounds, and will be back when that becomes obvious, joined by even bigger numbers of new investors." More >

Marc Faber: The World Is a Mess, But Junior Mining Stocks Could Double
Source: JT Long of The Gold Report  (6/3/13)
The world's economy is in tatters and safe havens are few and far between, says legendary contrarian Marc Faber. The banking crisis in Cyprus has shown that even bank deposits are not safe. The publisher of the Doom, Boom and Gloom newsletter, surveying the world from his perch in Hong Kong, discusses the impact of unemployment in Europe, the economic slowdown in China, asset bubbles and the turnaround prospects for precious metals miners. Faber also reveals his investment strategy for these volatile times in this interview with The Gold Report. More >

Why Stocks and Gold Are About to Reverse Course
Source: Toby Connor, Gold Scents  (6/2/13)
"Without fail liquidity eventually finds its way into undervalued assets." More >

SilverStrategies' Sean Rakhimov Advises Diversity
Source: Brian Sylvester of The Gold Report  (5/31/13)
It's these times—volatile markets that shake you to your core—when you truly learn what kind of investor you are, says Sean Rakhimov, the founder of SilverStrategies. The investors who face these testing times, never forgetting why they sunk their funds into precious metals in the first place, are soon to be rewarded, according to Rakhimov. In this interview with The Gold Report,
Rakhimov explains why he believes that investors who haven't been shaken out of stocks yet will be able to cash in on a "triple" headed to the silver sector and discusses a handful of companies that investors need to pay attention to.
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Rick Rule's Reasons to Buy Gold and Select Gold Stocks
Source: Jeff Clark, Casey Research  (5/30/13)
"I think that one of the things you have to look at in the gold market is that we are changing the nature of ownership, from institutional momentum holders who are leveraged to physical individual buyers on a global basis." More >

Has the Gold Bull Market Hit a Snag? Tobias Tretter Says No
Source: Brian Sylvester of The Gold Report  (5/29/13)
Interest rates will be low for a long time, predicts Commodity Capital Global Mining Fund Manager Tobias Tretter. Despite predictions of a gold bubble bursting, Tretter says in this interview with The Gold Report that the gold bull run will continue. In fact, Tretter still sees tremendous opportunity in a number of junior gold companies that have been largely ignored by the market. More >

Miners with the Means to Acquire New Assets Are in the Driver's Seat
Source: Financial Post, David Pett  (5/27/13)
"The short list of high-quality acquisition candidates includes Balmoral Resources Ltd. and Newstrike Capital Inc." More >

Grade Is King: Gold Miners Moving Low-Grade Mega Projects to Back Burner
Source: Lawrence Williams, Mineweb  (5/23/13)
"With low-grade gold mega resources being seen as too expensive to develop in the current financial climate, explorers like Pretium, Seabridge and others are targeting potential higher-grade options." More >

Platinum and Palladium: A Fundamental Shift
Source: Jeff Clark, Casey Research  (5/22/13)
"While we wait for our gold positions to rebound, an investment in platinum and palladium could be very profitable." More >

6 Reasons Why Gold Stocks Will Begin a Huge Rally
Source: Jordan Roy-Byrne, The Daily Gold  (5/21/13)
It's been a tough road for precious metals but the path ahead has strong potential of being significantly profitable compared to these levels. More >

Brent Cook's Primer on Reading Drill Result Press Releases
Source: JT Long of The Gold Report  (5/20/13)
"Half science, half art, half luck," is how Brent Cook describes a geologist's work in distinguishing an anomaly from a deposit. But in his interview with The Gold Report,
the publisher of Exploration Insights suggests investors will have an easier time distinguishing good drill results from bad if they know how to dissect a company's press releases. And despite the current preference for cost cutting over discovery, Cook discusses several miners whose futures are bright.
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Volatility in Precious Metals Driven by Investor Switch from Commodities to Equities
Source: Adrian Ash, BullionVault  (5/20/13)
"Initially extending Friday's late drop to touch $1,340/oz for only the second time since January 2011, gold rallied from new five-week lows for euro and British pound investors." More >

Caesars Report's Second Most Important Factor in Picking a Winning Mining Investment: Jurisdiction
Source: Brian Sylvester of The Gold Report  (5/17/13)
Jurisdiction risk continues to grow as a result of countries attempting to capitalize on higher commodity prices. In this interview for The Gold Report,Thibaut Lepouttre, editor of Caesars Report, a newsletter and mining portal in Belgium, discusses which jurisdictions offer better value to investors and which countries to avoid. He also offers suggestions on where to look outside of North America for compelling values in junior mining. More >

Junior Gold Producers' Q1/13 Earnings Show Profitability
Source: Kip Keen, Mineweb  (5/16/13)
"Junior gold producers are still, by and large, not in a panic about the current price of gold, though for some it puts the pressure on." More >