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Unlike gold — where 75% of what’s mined annually is used for jewelry — silver is mostly used for industrial purposes.

Shares of Almaden Minerals were jumping on Thursday after the company reported the results of a preliminary economic assessment on its Ixtaca gold-silver deposit.

Everyone knows that the sun rises in the East, moves across our skies, and sets in the West. Over the past few years, gold buying has also been rising in the East and moving in an extraordinary migration away from Western banks and out of the hands of Western investors.

China’s appetite for the yellow metal has helped to underpin gold prices since 2001, when many price and trading restrictions were relaxed.

With this latest suit from one of the world’s largest mining conglomerates, Venezuela now has 28 cases pending against it at the World Bank’s ICSID arbitration forum.

Palladium advanced to the highest in more than two years as the U.S. threatened more sanctions against Russia, the world’s largest supplier of the metal.

Eldorado Gold gained 2.2% to $6.04 Tuesday after providing and update on its Deva Gold SA Certej project in Romania.

The mission of the Asia Mining Club is to promote education among its members, and one way to achieve this is by hearing from experts in the financial markets, notably those focused on resources and commodities.