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| | | | Silver Wheaton CEO, Randy Smallwood, explains why the current funding environment is good for the company and why he remains bullish on the metal. | | | | | TOP STORIES | Tuesday , 24 Apr 2012 | | It may take more than a few James Cameron blockbusters to help fund a space exploration program to send robo-geologists to the nearest geologically prospective asteroid to search for PGMs. Tuesday , 24 Apr 2012 | | Despite growth in investment demand, Haywood Securities' Chris Thompson says silver remains "very much an industrial metal." Tuesday , 24 Apr 2012 | | Impact is digesting new high-grade drilling results as it makes a production decision on a multi-vein silver system. Tuesday , 24 Apr 2012 | | According to US Global's Frank Holmes, the significant divergence between gold and oil stocks and their respective underlying commodity is an extraordinary circumstance. Tuesday , 24 Apr 2012 | | Seafield Resources crunches the numbers on its Miraflores gold project and gets a two-year payback on a 4,000 tpd gold mine. Monday , 23 Apr 2012 | | As long as there is no significant improvement in the world monetary situation and real interest rates don't rise dramatically, John LaForge believes the gold price trend remains. Gold Report interview. Tuesday , 24 Apr 2012 | | The world's third largest gold miner has cited under-investment and heavy rains at its major mines in Australia and Papua New Guinea as reasons behind the production cut. Tuesday , 24 Apr 2012 | | Peru's government said on Monday US-based Newmont Mining is willing to improve the environmental mitigation plan for its proposed $4.8 billion Conga project as it seeks to overcome opposition to the mine. Tuesday , 24 Apr 2012 | | A flagging global economy, falling output on an annual basis and competitive pressures weighed on Usiminas' first-quarter results. Tuesday , 24 Apr 2012 | | Sources familiar with the matter say the company has until Friday to resolve the covenant breach on a $437 million loan following a drop in the price of its London-listed coal miner Bumi Plc last week. Tuesday , 24 Apr 2012 | | Resource-rich Mongolia has become an attractive target for China's aluminium giant Chalco, which has announced a second coal deal despite signs that the Mongolian government is seeking to derail an earlier deal. Tuesday , 24 Apr 2012 | | An affiliate of Peruvian tin miner, Minsur, has reached an agreement to buy a controlling stake in the Mina Justa copper project, located in the coastal region of Ica, for $505 million. Tuesday , 24 Apr 2012 | | Baja Mining Corp, which owns 70% of the Boleo copper-cobalt-zinc project, says it is in talks with lenders, along with its Korean partners, to fund the shortfall within the next two months. Monday , 23 Apr 2012 | | Gold is currently treading water but Jeff Nichols believes that the chances of a breakout to the upside are significantly greater than the probability of a breakdown with the gold bull having five to ten years of life ahead Sunday , 22 Apr 2012 | | Speaking to Mineweb from the Denver Gold Group's European Gold Forum, Ross Norman explains why gold is not in a bubble and why investors must continue to come to the party | | Gold is roughly in the middle of a 20 to 25 year cycle and should break through its all time highs within the next few years but, it won't be smooth sailing | | GCIC portfolio manager, Robert Cohen, looks at the lay of the gold equity land and what the money currently on the sidelines is looking for | | Van Eck Gold Fund portfolio manager, Joseph Foster says there is a lot of money waiting in the wings for a reason to buy gold stocks and says another summer rally isn't out of the question | | |
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