De Grey unveils tier 1 scale 6.8Moz resources for Hemi gold deposit in Australia

According to the company’s statement, the global mineral resources for the Mallina project, including Hemi, increased to 9.0Moz. The company said that its exploration team has taken Hemi from discovery to a Tier 1 scale 6.8Moz gold deposit in a short timeframe. The company noted that the project studies, including metallurgy, geotechnical, mining, environmental, infrastructure […]

Gold, silver a bit weaker just ahead of Fed Chair Powell’s testimony

August gold futures were last down $4.90 at $1,778.00 and July Comex silver was last down $0.20 at $25.82 an ounce. Powell’s prepared text for today’s appearance on the coronavirus pandemic, released Monday afternoon, shows him reiterating the rise in inflation is transitory. Reports said Russia is considering proposing OPEC and its allies increase output […]

Gold price ignores Powell’s inflation stance: It’s higher than expected, but it’ll ‘wane’

The Fed chair highlighted items such as cars, airplane tickets, hotel prices. “Those are things that we would look to stop going up and ultimately start to decline,” Powell said, while still being unclear on when that might be. Powell continued to list coronavirus fears, school closures, and the time it takes to find a […]

Basel III to trigger ‘liquidity squeeze,’ gold price could be looking at $2100 by year-end – Goldex CEO

Basel III is an internationally agreed-upon set of measures developed by the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision in response to the financial crisis of 2007-09. One of the biggest changes for gold is that the precious metal is being reclassified from a Tier 3 asset, which is the riskiest asset class, to a Tier 1 […]

Hedge funds dropped bullish gold bets to prepare for hawkish Fed

“The yellow metal’s failure to break north of the $1900/oz range, despite a disappointing non-farm report and strong inflation data, catalyzed some CTA selling as upside momentum waned. The CFTC disaggregated Commitments of Traders report, for the week ending June 15, showed money managers decreased their speculative gross long positions in Comex gold futures by […]

Will US economy and dollar really collapse? ‘Gold bugs’ will hate this message says Marin Katusa

In an interview with Michelle Makori, editor-in-chief for Kitco News, Katusa who is a New York Times best-selling author, fund manager and the founder of Katusa research, an independent investment research firm, maintains that the Dollar’s status as a global reserve currency is not in jeopardy and the U.S. “I get it, the gold guys, […]