For Allied Nevada Gold (ANV), something old is something new. The junior gold miner recently restarted a previously shuttered open pit mine in its eponymous state. Production at the company’s Hycroft Mine was halted in late 1998 due to low metals prices. Since then, as you know, the price of… Read More

Gold miners are increasingly scouring remote regions of the globe for lode bearing rock or ore bodies suitable for profitable heap leaching. One company that has achieved a good deal of success in this endeavor and which has a bright future is Randgold Resources (GOLD). This gold mining and exploration company… Read More

For Allied Nevada Gold (ANV), something old is something new. The junior gold miner recently restarted a previously shuttered open pit mine in its eponymous state. Production at the company’s Hycroft Mine was halted in late 1998 due to low metals prices. Since then, as you know, the price of… Read More

Stocks traded down to new lows again today as concerns about the banking sector remain extremely elevated. Investors sense that not enough is being done to fix the problem. And yesterday Treasury Secretary Geithner, appearing before the Senate Finance Committee, came out and said that more money will be… Read More

Recommendations this issue: Eldorado Gold (EGO)Gold made a stab at the $1,000 an ounce mark last week, closing just shy of that nice round number. That move brought the metal to its highest level in eleven months and its second-highest close on record before it backed off.click… Read More

Central banks around the globe are the world’s largest holders of gold. From time to time they sell a portion of their holdings to draw liquidity from the markets, or simply to generate income.   To moderate the potential price impact of those gold sales on the market, during… Read More

The advent of exchange traded funds (ETFs) has made it a lot easier for small investors to conveniently invest in gold. The SPDR Gold Trust (GLD), for instance, which we hold in our long-term portfolio, can be bought and sold anytime during the trading day through a discount broker. Read More

Countless explorers dating from the conquistadors canvassed the Americas searching for El Dorado, the legendary city of gold. Today, Eldorado Gold (EGO) has cast its eye further a field and has stuck it rich in places like Turkey and China, and it has excellent prospects in other far-flung locales. Read More

Stock market investors continue to wrestle with where the economy is headed. On the one hand there are glimmers of hope, such as very low interest rates and the big jump in housing affordability, which has led to a jump in mortgage applications. Other economic data points, on the… Read More

New recommendation this issue:Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold (FCX)There has been no lack of ink used in recent months to write the obituary for the Chinese economy. All we can say is don’t believe everything you read.To suppose that some analysts or journalists in New York have a better handle… Read More