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Gold mining can be a terrible business. The metal's price is volatile. Environmental and political risks are ever-present. And operating costs (especially energy) tend to rise even when gold's price is falling. The result is a combination of low margins and high risk that causes most miners to...

Coronavirus Is Good News For Gold Prices And Miners (Current gold prices. Credit: StockCharts) With stock markets and oil prices plunging this week on increased concerns of the growing COVID-19 pandemic , investors are hiding out in gold, cash and bonds as safe havens. But gold miners a...

Fundamentals The last few weeks, the stock market has been falling apart in the face of the coronavirus news. It took time for the equity market to realize the implications of the virus and that the implications economically are uncertain. Right now we are seeing panic in the marketplace...

The price of nickel rose to highs in 2019 as the world's leading producing nation, Indonesia, moved forward its mineral export ban of the metal to January 1, 2020. Source: Nickel production top countries 2019 - Statista While Indonesian output leads the world, the Philippines is the ...

Gold has been moving aggressively higher since breaking to the upside above the July 2016 high at $1377.50 last June. The most recent high in the yellow metal came on Sunday night, March 8, at $1704.30 per ounce as gold touched a level that was $326.80 or 23.7% above its level of critical tech...

London is the hub of the over-the-counter gold market. At the end of the last century, ironically, it was the United Kingdom that decided that the yellow metal was nothing more than a barbarous relic and an asset of the past. The Chancellor of the Exchequer at the time, Gordon Brown, supervi...

It may appear that the coronavirus caused the markets to collapse. A deeper analysis shows that the virus merely triggered a decline that has been building since 2008 as the central banks have increased debt to record levels around the world. However, whatever the real cause of the recent vola...

Trading silver can be like riding a psychotic horse through a burning barn at times. In 1980 and 2011, the price of silver traded on either side of $50 per ounce. The move to the upside during those years put silver on the radar for many speculators who lay in the reeds waiting for the next da...

For the last few months, gold has had the benefit of a strong "fear factor" as investors retreat to the safety of the yellow metal in the face of mounting global health and economic concerns. Missing from the equation, though, has been a strong currency component for the metal due to the dolla...

Platinum is a rare metal. The overwhelming bulk of annual production comes from two countries, South Africa and Russia. In South Africa, the output comes from primary production in mines that are deep in the crust of the earth. In Russia, platinum and other platinum group metals are byproducts...