South African Platinum Production Advances 46%
Source: Bloomberg, Carli Lourens  (11/11/10)
"SA is expanding extraction as prices, auto and jewelry demand increas." More >

When to Sell Gold
Source: Terry Coxon, Casey Research   (11/11/10)
"Selling at the right time is the key to collecting profits." More >

Costa Rica Bans Open-Pit Mining
Source: mining-technology  (11/11/10)
"Lawmakers say open-pit mines lead to deforestation and destroy wildlife." More >

Emerging Markets? They've Already Emerged
Source: CNN Money, Paul La Monica  (11/11/10)
"The GDP gap is only likely to get wider." More >

Copper Bubble or Bull? Pt. I
Source: MetalMiner, Stuart Burns  (11/11/10)
"Is copper on a sustainable bull run?" More >

What If. . .
Source: Anthony Stills, The Able Speculator  (11/11/10)
"Bernanke has to know that QE2 is doomed to eventual failure." More >

Diwali, Dollars and Gold
Source: Frank Holmes, U.S. Global Investors   (11/11/10)
"India's Diwali festival kicked off the next stage in gold's seasonal patterns." More >

Going Back to a Gold Standard?
Source: Adrian Ash, BullionVault   (11/11/10)
"Nope. Not in the West, or anytime soon anywhere." More >

John Embry: Die Was Cast Before Elections
Source: Karen Roche and Brian Sylvester of The Gold Report  (11/10/10)
Regardless of who's controlling the U.S. Congress, Sprott Asset Management Chief Investment Strategist John Embry holds out little hope for economic happiness in the short run. As he tells The Gold Report in this exclusive interview, "It's consequence time" and "any opportunity to have a pleasant outcome. . .in the relatively near term is long gone." An exception, at least for the time being, may be in senior gold stocks, which he says, "have seldom been cheaper in relation to the price of gold." More >

Platinum vs. Palladium
Source: MetalMiner, Taras Berezowsky  (11/10/10)
"Palladium should continue to make waves in the jewelry sector." More >

Using Calendar Spreads to Trade Gold
Source: J.W. Jones, Options Trading Signals   (11/10/10)
'"Great traders respect price action as the final arbiter and adapt." More >

Silver Breaking Out
Source: Seeking Alpha, Ananthan Thangavel  (11/10/10)
"Silver's breakout has been nothing short of astounding." More >

G-20 to Paper over Global Imbalances, Analysts Agree
Source: MarketWatch, Greg Robb  (11/10/10)
"Fed move seems to have 'hijacked' the meeting, analysts said." More >

Gold Rallies Above $1,400
Source: Reuters, Amanda Cooper  (11/10/10)
"Gold's inverse correlation to the dollar is starting to weaken." More >

Windfall Tipped from Resource Coffers
Source: The Australian, Sarah-Jane Tasker  (11/10/10)
"Global mining industry will be sitting on $72B by year-end 2012." More >

Vietnam Plan Would Allow Gold Imports
Source: The Wall Street Journal, Vu Trong Khanh  (11/10/10)
"Bank to allow gold imports in order to stabilize the local gold market." More >

Gold Takes One More Step Toward Monetary Center Stage, Pt. 1
Source: Julian Phillips, Gold Forecaster  (11/9/10)
"Only a matter of time before the developed world is eclipsed economically by Asia." More >

Rebirth of the Gold Standard
Source: James West, Midas Letter  (11/9/10)
"I guess it's not such a dumb idea after all." More >

Silver Prices Sparkle Once Again
Source: Bob Kirtley, SK Options Trading  (11/9/10)
"We are on course for $30/oz. silver. . ." More >

Fed Creates Parabolic Move in Gold and Silver
Source: Jeb Handwerger, Gold Stock Trades  (11/9/10)
"The most dangerous trade is the painless trade." More >

Gold Standard Manifesto
Source: Jordan Roy-Byrne, The Daily Gold  (11/9/10)
"The philosophies of one age have become the absurdities of the next, and the foolishness of yesterday has become the wisdom of tomorrow." More >

Gold: How Long, How High and How to Play It
Source: David Banister, Market Trend Forecast  (11/9/10)
"Look toward prospect generator companies to play this next four years of upside." More >

Déjà Vu Muddies Rare Earth Rush
Source: Reuters, Julie Gordon  (11/9/10)
"More REE suppliers are needed, no matter what policy China pursues." More >

PI Financial's Goguen Has Latin Fever
Source: Brian Sylvester of The Gold Report  (11/8/10)
David Goguen, PI Financial's vice president of Institutional Mining Sales, tracks advanced explorers, emerging producers and junior producers in Latin America as they move through the development cycle. In this exclusive interview with The Gold Report, David discusses PI Financial's recent institutional sales desk report titled Select Golds: Latin Focus, which is flush with gold juniors ready to tango. More >

G20 Urged to Ensure REE Supply
Source: AFP  (11/8/10)
"Further trade disputes cannot be in the interest of all G20 nations." More >