Why Stephan Bogner Believes You Should Be 100% Invested in Precious Metals
Source: Brian Sylvester of The Gold Report  (7/15/13)
Now is the time to be brave, to buy when everyone else is selling, advises Stephan Bogner, analyst with Rockstone Research and CEO of bullion dealer Elementum International. Content to go against the grain, Bogner believes investors should be 100% invested in precious metals, both in physical metals and equities. He is interested not only in companies that are profitable now but also in ones that will someday be in the black again. In this interview with The Gold Report, he describes his ideal portfolio, which includes companies operating in far-flung places. More >

Breakdown: British Columbia Explorers
Source: Visual Capitalistm  (7/15/13)
"Using 20+ variables, we've analyzed over 50 exploration companies and their main projects in B.C." More >

John Kaiser's Strategies for Success in a Bloody Market
Source: JT Long of The Gold Report  (7/8/13)
With so many junior mining companies going into hibernation, John Kaiser of Kaiser Research Online fears that the entire mining sector could fall dormant. In this interview with The Gold Report, he outlines approaches to discovery and development that smart, nimble companies are deploying to stay alive. Whether precious, base or critical metals, or in jurisdictions as exotic as Morocco and as familiar as Nevada, these are the basics required for survival in today's brutal market.
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Jeff Killeen: C is for Cash and Catalysts in a Chaotic Market
Source: Brian Sylvester of The Gold Report  (6/28/13)
Resource equities remain under siege and Jeff Killeen, an analyst with CIBC World Markets in Toronto, preaches the importance of the two Cs, cash and catalysts, to investors in this shaky market. In this interview with The Gold Report, Killeen discusses what fundamentals he looks for and names some companies that have strong balance sheets and potentially market-moving news on the horizon.
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Ian Gordon: Who Killed the Gold Price?
Source: Brian Sylvester of The Gold Report  (6/26/13)
The gold price may have taken a tumble, but Ian Gordon, chairman and founder of the Longwave Group in British Columbia, is watching for a recovery. As bullishness in gold reaches some of its lowest levels, Gordon, in this interview with The Gold Report, says he believes that is indicative of a turn and he discusses where he has invested his money to ride the upswing.
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Roger Wiegand Predicts a Brand New World for Gold
Source: Peter Byrne of The Gold Report  (6/24/13)
The quant who produces Trader Tracks newsletter tells The Gold Report that the technical charts project a brightening future for precious metals. Technical market analyst Roger Wiegand tracks annual trading cycles while keeping an expert eye on potentially disruptive world events. He is a stickler for fundamentals, though, when it comes to picking out the best juniors for safe bets in a cash-poor industry. More >

Five Miners Chen Lin Expects to Buck the Trend
Source: Zig Lambo of The Gold Report  (6/21/13)
For most investors, the market for gold and silver stocks resembles a battlefield littered with the dead and dying, especially after the last day or two. The key for investors is picking those stocks that have the best chance for survival, and sticking with them until they are able to recover. In this interview with The Gold Report, Chen Lin tells us what he looks for to make that critical decision and why he believes that platinum and palladium should do well regardless of what is happening with gold and silver. More >

Get Ready for Stupid Cheap Silver Prices:
David H. Smith
Source: Brian Sylvester of The Gold Report  (6/19/13)
It's a jungle out in the silver markets. Investors are holding on for their lives as the price of metals swings to higher highs and lower lows and junior equities bounce along the bottom. In this interview with The Gold Report, David H. Smith, senior analyst at silver-investor.com's The Morgan Report, navigates the jungle by advising which explorers, midtiers, stalwarts and royalties to consider buying in tranches on the way down and selling on the inevitable way up.
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FOMC Is the Big Driver for Precious Metals this Week
Source: Ben Traynor, BullionVault  (6/17/13)
"On the New York Comex, the so-called speculative net long position in gold futures and options—calculated as the number of 'bullish' long minus 'bearish' short contracts held by traders classed as speculators—fell in the week ended last Tuesday." More >

The Hidden Costs of Precious-Metals Miners' Optimism
Source: Andrey Dashkov, Casey Research  (6/17/13)
"We believe gold will rebound and head higher, as you know, but that hasn't happened yet, and some mines that went into construction or production based on unrealistic assumptions are facing greater costs and lower revenues, resulting in net incomes far below investors' expectations." More >

Physical Gold and Paper Gold Battling for Supremacy: Brien Lundin
Source: Alec Gimurtu of The Gold Report  (6/12/13)
The recent drop in gold prices is a confirmation, or a revelation, to investors of the battle between the physical and paper gold markets. In this interview with The Gold Report, Brien Lundin, editor of Gold Newsletter, predicts the timing of a handoff from Asian physical demand to Western speculative demand and assesses the readiness of the junior market to respond to a revival in commodity prices. Plus, in a tip to Father's Day, he discusses his efforts to groom the next generation of investors.
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Tug of War in Gold and Silver
Source: Ben Traynor, BullionVault  (6/12/13)
"Since falling sharply in April, gold has swung either side of $1400 an ounce, with the gold price falling as low as $1337 and as high as $1478." More >

Keeping Stakes Small: How Some Companies Are Navigating the Gold M&A Market: Keith Phillips
Source: Brian Sylvester of The Gold Report  (6/10/13)
Bigger isn't always better, as recent acquisitions by Agnico-Eagle Mines Ltd., Coeur d'Alene Mines Corp. and New Gold Inc. suggest. These companies are choosing to make multiple smaller deals as they keep the M&A thesis alive. In this interview with The Gold Report, Keith Phillips, head of Cowen and Company's Metals & Mining Investment Banking Group, tells investors what they can learn from those deals, the biggest problems facing the gold equities market and how they can take advantage of what he calls the strongest debt-financing markets in history. More >

The Three Ways Frank Holmes and Brian Hicks Play the Junior Resource Space
Source: JT Long of The Gold Report  (6/7/13)
The recent volatility in the gold market has investors taking a second look at their strategies. In this interview with The Gold Report, Frank Holmes and Brian Hicks of U.S. Global Investors discuss their criteria for investment decisions, the factors they think will affect the gold sector and how ETFs are distorting the gold equities market. More >

Marc Faber: The World Is a Mess, But Junior Mining Stocks Could Double
Source: JT Long of The Gold Report  (6/3/13)
The world's economy is in tatters and safe havens are few and far between, says legendary contrarian Marc Faber. The banking crisis in Cyprus has shown that even bank deposits are not safe. The publisher of the Doom, Boom and Gloom newsletter, surveying the world from his perch in Hong Kong, discusses the impact of unemployment in Europe, the economic slowdown in China, asset bubbles and the turnaround prospects for precious metals miners. Faber also reveals his investment strategy for these volatile times in this interview with The Gold Report. More >

SilverStrategies' Sean Rakhimov Advises Diversity
Source: Brian Sylvester of The Gold Report  (5/31/13)
It's these times—volatile markets that shake you to your core—when you truly learn what kind of investor you are, says Sean Rakhimov, the founder of SilverStrategies. The investors who face these testing times, never forgetting why they sunk their funds into precious metals in the first place, are soon to be rewarded, according to Rakhimov. In this interview with The Gold Report,
Rakhimov explains why he believes that investors who haven't been shaken out of stocks yet will be able to cash in on a "triple" headed to the silver sector and discusses a handful of companies that investors need to pay attention to.
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Rick Rule's Reasons to Buy Gold and Select Gold Stocks
Source: Jeff Clark, Casey Research  (5/30/13)
"I think that one of the things you have to look at in the gold market is that we are changing the nature of ownership, from institutional momentum holders who are leveraged to physical individual buyers on a global basis." More >

Has the Gold Bull Market Hit a Snag? Tobias Tretter Says No
Source: Brian Sylvester of The Gold Report  (5/29/13)
Interest rates will be low for a long time, predicts Commodity Capital Global Mining Fund Manager Tobias Tretter. Despite predictions of a gold bubble bursting, Tretter says in this interview with The Gold Report that the gold bull run will continue. In fact, Tretter still sees tremendous opportunity in a number of junior gold companies that have been largely ignored by the market. More >

Sprott Is Bullish on Silver—and Gold—Equities
Source: Brian Sylvester of The Gold Report  (5/22/13)
Sprott Silver Equities Class Co-Manager Maria Smirnova understands the power of leverage. She has seen the big impact even a slight increase in the silver price can have on silver producers. Every cent is multiplied and goes right to the investor's bottom line, giving the equities more upside than possible in a coin. That is why Eric Sprott increased holdings of silver equities in certain Sprott funds. Smirnova discusses five of these companies in this interview with The Gold Report. More >

Volatility in Precious Metals Driven by Investor Switch from Commodities to Equities
Source: Adrian Ash, BullionVault  (5/20/13)
"Initially extending Friday's late drop to touch $1,340/oz for only the second time since January 2011, gold rallied from new five-week lows for euro and British pound investors." More >

Tips for Diversifying Beyond Gold from Brent Cook
Source: JT Long of The Metals Report  (5/14/13)
Last month's landslide at Utah's Bingham Canyon, one of the world's largest copper mines, triggered significant discussion on possible copper shortages. Brent Cook, veteran geologist and publisher of Exploration Insights, puts the landslide into perspective in this interview with The Metals Report. And for investors who want to dig out profit potential beyond the yellow metal, Cook gives us a byproduct primer and suggests base metals are a great way to diversify. More >

US Silver Production Up 17% in February 2013: USGS
Source: Dorothy Kosich, Mineweb   (5/13/13)
"Combined U.S. mining silver production for January and February of this year was 183,000 kg (5,883,586 oz), said the USGS." More >

Precious Metal Royalties: The New Landscape
Source: JF Gunter of The Gold Report  (5/10/13)
In today's challenging finance environment, some miners are looking to royalty companies to fill the funding void. Royalty sales give the junior mining company capital to explore or build a mine in exchange for a percentage of future production. It is a win-win. Investors have exposure to gold profits, but are immune to much of the risk. Juniors get the money they need to move forward. But not all royalties are the same and a number of new types have entered the market to fill specific investing and funding niches. In this special primer from The Gold Report, we survey the heads of the companies to explain the role they see themselves playing in investment portfolios and the future of mining. More >

Special Report from the SME Conference: How to Find Money in Any Market
Source: JT Long of The Gold Report  (5/6/13)
Money: Mining companies need it and investors want to know that companies will use that money to make them money. An innovative conference sponsored by the Society for Mining, Metallurgy and Exploration (SME), called "Current Trends in Mining Finance—An Executive's Guide: What Are Lenders, Investors Looking For?", brought together about 145 experts who were actively funding and running companies—and looking for answers. In this interview with The Gold Report,
SME Executive Director David Kanagy and Conference Co-Chair Tim Alch share some insights about alternative funding that could help more companies survive the year.
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Physical Gold-Silver Shortage Could Benefit Undervalued Miners
Source: Jeb Handwerger, Gold Stock Trades  (5/3/13)
"We may see a very powerful rebound as short covering and record investment demand returns to the precious metal sector." More >