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By analyst By Valentina Ruiz Leotaud Scientists from the Brazilian Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais found new evidence that shows that diamonds can be forged in thin films called diamondene. In a paper published in Nature Communications, the group of researchers led by physicist Luiz Gustavo Cançado explain that when a pair of graphene sheets […]

By analyst By Valentina Ruiz Leotaud A struggling dollar and serious doubts about whether or not the U.S. Federal Reserve will raise interest rates again this year sent gold to its highest point in almost seven weeks. Spot gold was down 0.1 per cent at $1,267.4 an ounce by 2:00 p.m. EDT, after rising to

By analyst By MINING.com Editor Toronto-based Anaconda Mining (ANX: TSX) announced today positive results from its first drill program at the Goldboro Project in Nova Scotia. According to a press release sent out by the company, multiple occurrences of visible gold and assays with high-grade tenor were observed in their five-hole diamond drill program, which

By analyst By Valentina Ruiz Leotaud Members of four Colombian First Nations occupied a mine called La Cantera La Peña de Horeb, in the northern Cesar department, to protest against its illegal operations. The protesters’ allegations were confirmed by the department’s environmental authority, whose representatives said they were going to press charges against Explominerales de

By Brian Maher This post Currency Wars, Trade Wars… and Shooting Wars appeared first on Daily Reckoning. Jim Rickards was a keynote speaker at the Sprott Natural Resource Symposium, concluded Friday. Taking his presentation, we can understand why Jim was voted outstanding speaker at last year’s conference. He had hundreds of people hanging on his

By GoldSilverWorlds Let’s start with this fact; fiat (paper) currencies die – often spectacularly. That is why precious metals may someday be needed for barter and trade. Anyone who thinks it is silly to worry about such a thing is putting blind faith in Federal Reserve Notes. The U.S. dollar is having a great run,

By Keith Weiner Precious Metals Supply and Demand Report That’s it. It’s the final straw. One of the alternative investing newsletters had a headline that screamed, “Bitcoin Is About to Soar, But You Must Act by August 1 to Get In”. It was missing only the call to action “call 1-800-BIT-COIN now! That number again

By Craig Wilson This post Quantitative Tightening: Four Things We Learned from the Fed in July appeared first on Daily Reckoning. The Federal Reserve has now signaled that it is embarking on a quantitative tightening (QT) program for the American financial system. After mounting fears over a $4.5 trillion-dollar balance sheet and what it could

By Cory Gold:Silver Ratio From a Chart Perspective There is an ongoing debate about whether the gold to silver ratio (on a absolute basis when compared to historical averages) is useful for investors to consider when assessing the broad metals markets. However I do find value in looking at the charts and looking for changes

By Cory Comments on Currencies, Gold, and A Look Ahead To Economic Data This Week One of my new favorite guests of the show is Marc Chandler, Global Head of Currency Strategy at Brown Brothers Harriman. Marc joins me every Monday to look ahead at the data and key markets for the week. This week