Written by Koos Jansen on February 27, 2014 at 10:38 pm In 2013 the we’ve experienced what kind of extreme buying power China is able to unleash on the physical gold market. Chinese wholesale demand in 2013 was 2200 tons, this excluded PBOC purchases. While the mainstream media is stillabsolutely cluelesson what actually happened and how much gold was distributed across the globe, the facts aren’t that hard to summarize. Let’s have a look at the facts, supplemented with commentary by yours truly. As most countries disclose their gold trade numbers, by analyzing these numbers we could see a clear gold vein running

A Very, Very Interesting Year - Don Coxe, Chairman, Coxe Advisors LLC. For the past year, we have rarely written on gold, because there were too many other investment opportunities, and the good old SP was just going up month after month. This was, for most equity investors, Voltaire’s “best of all possible worlds.” The economy was of Goldilockian temperature and moderation, politicians were behaving the way cynics expected and optimists despised, and the Fed was successfully injecting massive doses of “financial heroin” into the US—and global—economy without any signs of ill effects… or any remarkable enthusiasm for risk-taking. Continue reading about the

By Ruairidh Villar and Sophie Knight TOKYO (Reuters) - Mt. Gox, once the worlds biggest bitcoin exchange, looked to have essentially disappeared on Tuesday, with its website down, its founder unaccounted for and a Tokyo office empty bar a handful of protesters saying they had lost money investing in the virtual currency.

By Jim Finkle BOSTON (Reuters) - Cyber criminals have infected hundreds of thousands of computers with a virus called Pony to steal bitcoins and other digital currencies, in the most ambitious cyber attack on virtual money uncovered so far, according to security firm Trustwave.

GoldMoneys Alisdair MacLeod speaks with Max Kaiser on how unstable the fiat currency pyramid has become. Video below.

Videos from the good folks at GoldSilver.com on building a precious metals nest egg in multiple jurisdictions, specifically Canada and Singapore. Please follow this link for the videos and a helpful FAQ: http://goldsilver.com/article/international-silver-ira-gold-ira/

From our friends at GoldSilver.com, James Anderson writes: When you first set off to buy silver and gold products, there are many factors which will likely influence your decision making. A products price is most certainly one of the most important decision making factors.Gold and silver dealers know this, and therefore most dealers build their business models and advertising campaigns around low price offers. Dealers understand that most people are trained to think that in a shopping comparison, lowest price wins. This presumption should especially hold true when investors are comparing fungible or like-kind silver and gold bullion products from one dealer to

Payback time? Fallback plan? Money in the bank? What would you ask the CEO of a company you were considering investing in? In advance of the Prospectors and Developers Association of Canada convention in March, newsletter writers Keith Schaefer, Eric Coffin and Lawrence Roulston are bringing 15 energy and mining companies together for a meet the management Subscriber Investment Summit in Toronto. In this interview withThe Mining Report, the experts share their sometimes surprising responses to the state of the industry.

Ahead of Schedule Below Budget2015 Production Estimate 75,000 oz. Gold – Cash Cost US$575 per oz. TORONTO, ONTARIO - (February 20, 2014) - McEwen Mining Inc. (NYSE: MUX) (TSX: MUX)is pleased to announce that the expansion of the El Gallo 1 mine in Sinaloa State, Mexico is scheduled to be completed by early April. The expansion is approximately three months ahead of schedule and capital costs are expected to total US$3 million versus the US$5 million originally budgeted. Production is anticipated to grow from 37,500 oz. gold this year to 75,000 oz. gold in 2015. Cash costs are also expected to decrease from

Temporary post for RR. Constantine Metal Resources

COEUR DALENE, IDAHO--(Marketwired - Feb. 20, 2014) -Timberline Resources Corporation (NYSE MKT:TLR)(TSX VENTURE:TBR) (Timberline or the Company) announced today that the NYSE MKT LLC (the Exchange) has granted Timberlines request for a two week extension to submit a plan of compliance (the Plan) to the Exchange. Based in part on the Companys progress to date on numerous alternatives, the previous deadline of February 20, 2014 has been extended to March 6, 2014.

Vancouver, B.C. - February 18, 2014-Precipitate Gold Corp.(the Company or Precipitate) (TSXV: PRG) is pleased to announce it has initiated a ground Induced Polarization (IP) geophysical survey at the Companys 100% owned Juan de Herrera project in the Dominican Republic.

Mariano Castillo and Catherine E. Shoichet write for CNN: (CNN) -- Theyve faced gunfire, tear gas and water cannons. And now a man who led them in days of anti-government demonstrationsis behind barsafter turning himself in to authorities. But Venezuelan protesters were still in the streets after opposition leader Leopoldo Lopezs arrest Tuesday, demanding better security, an end to scarcities and protected freedom of speech. President Nicolas Maduro and his supporters also rallied, blaming the opposition for causing the very problems it protests.

A Venezuelan opposition leader, Leopoldo Lopez, has handed himself over to the National Guard after holding a speech to thousands of his supporters. He said he hoped his arrest would wake up the country to its unjust justice.

Remember this chart from November? It is also self-explanatory.