Tariffs: the point of view of the greatest president of the Grand Old Party

Tariffs: the dividing factor in current US politics. Does opposing the idea of tariffs make you a Democrat? I don't think so. But it does make you a more competent Republican.

Different agenda's and various outlooks

Gold (in USD) is firmly into the $3xxx. The election of D. Trump caused a gold slide from close to $2800 to around $2560. It proved to be short lived. Though by end 2024 the gold price only regained little, closing the year at $2625.

Acquisitions cause a major update of the GoldMinerPulse database

Since Nov 2010, we have been maintaining a list of Gold and Silver miners, explorers and developers, initially coinciding with the Gold Miner Pulse database.

PDAC Media coverage

The PDAC 2025 has been organized from 2 to 5 March in Toronto. The present posting gives a glance of the media coverage of that conference.

VRIC media continues coverage on Gold Mining

In the aftermath of the VRIC 2025 (Vancouver Resource Investment Conference), VRIC media continues coverage on Gold Mining in a series of both presentations and interviews.

Vancouver Resource Investment Conference: VRIC 2025

VRIC 2025 hosted at the Vancouver convention center on Jan 19 & 20 is the first resource conference of the year. This blogpost provides the highlights of the videostreams available.

Miners once more started lagging before gold peaked

Miners once more started lagging before gold peaked? You read it right ! They did. With the benefit of quantitative analysis: the linear correlation between the HUI miners index and the gold price this bold statement is corroborated.

Canadian Miners' performance (end 2024)

With graphs updated as of Dec 20, 2024

The 'gold miner pulse' page provides a fundamental view of how miners are valued in relation to precious metals. Indexes are calculated on miners of the gold miner pulse database and a performance dispersion graph gives a fair idea on how differently those miners performed. 

This Miners' Performance page indicates the individual performance of all miners in the GMP database.

Mixed blessings of political turmoil and warfare

The highest NYMEX closing price of Gold has been $2,786.9 on Oct 30. Escalations of the war in the Ukraine and of Israel on two fronts against Hezbollah in Lebanon and Hamas in Gaza have been and still are the main drivers of rising gold prices.

Silvercrest to be acquired by Coeur Mining

SilverCrest Metals and Coeur Mining have reached a deal for Coeur Mining to acquire Silver Crest in an all shares deal.