The worst asset class of 2013 has metamorphosed into the high flyer of the first months of 2014. After a few weeks of hesitation, the gold miners rally gets into second gear. When evaluating miners relative to precious metals, the paradigm change is revealing itself. Throughout nearly the complete gold miner bear market, the main index for unhedged miners quoting on American exchanges (HUI) was losing ground relative to gold. Moreover it rarely even regained its declining 200 days moving average. The trend reversed and HUI/Gold now breaks above its 200 dma.
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Wednesday, 12 February 2014
Monday, 21 January 2013
Platinum group metals, a story of scarcity and industrial needs
Among precious metals, platinum deserves special attention because of several of its characteristics. Unlike gold or silver, platinum is an extremely hard metal, with high wear resistance. Alloying platinum with gold makes the alloy more malleable. Platinum is denser than gold and has with 21.45 g/cm³ over twice the density of silver. It melts at a higher temperature (1768.3 °C or 2041.4 K) than silver or gold. Unlike silver and palladium[1] and similar to gold, platinum is not corroded in any normal environment.
(With graphs updated as of Jan 5, 2017)
(With graphs updated as of Jan 5, 2017)
Monday, 28 May 2012
Climbing the wall of worry
Gold and Silver Miner weakness has been with us for too long. On the "gold miner pulse" blog page, you find continuous (at least weekly) updates on how major precious metal miners are priced relative to gold. For that purpose the HUI/Gold ratio is used. By mid May, it bottomed below 0.25, a value not seen since the very October 2008 market bottom. In the previous posting, The Slump in Precious Metal Miners you read it in detail.
Monday, 15 February 2010
Goudmijnen: een turbo op de goudprijs?
Als de goudprijs hoge toppen scheert, zoals begin december, trekken ook de koersen van goudmijnen doorgaans zeer sterk aan. Een manier om dit te kwantificeren, zonder rekening te moeten houden met bedrijfsspecifieke gegevens die soms de trend doorkruisen, is de $HUI/$GOLD verhouding bekijken.
Thursday, 31 December 2009
Overlevingsstrategie van mijnbedrijven
Grondstoffenprijzen zijn erg wisselvallig. In 1999 leek het er erg op dat de ruwe olie beneden de $10 per barril zou duiken, daarentegen was negen jaar later de prijs een orde van grootte hoger om op $147 te pieken. Amper zes maand later, op het dieptepunt van de beurscrisis van 2008 ging de prijs van de ‘crude’ compleet onderuit om naar het jaareinde toe even aan een onwaarschijnlijke $34 te noteren. Dat was ook de officiële olieprijs in 1980. Inmiddels is de prijs al meer dan verdubbeld.
Dan zijn de peripetieën van de goudprijs nog klein bier: over dezelfde tijdsspanne daalde de goudprijs van $975 naar $725 om daarna een fors herstel in te zetten dat begin december leidde tot de nieuwe “all time high” boven $1200 /oz.
Dan zijn de peripetieën van de goudprijs nog klein bier: over dezelfde tijdsspanne daalde de goudprijs van $975 naar $725 om daarna een fors herstel in te zetten dat begin december leidde tot de nieuwe “all time high” boven $1200 /oz.
Thursday, 17 December 2009
De winsthefboom van Goudmijnen
De mythe klinkt eenvoudig genoeg, daarom is het er ook een. Als bij een productiekost per ons van $600 de goudprijs stijgt van bvb $750 (december 2007) naar $1033 (maart 2008) zou de winst bijna verdrievoudigen van $150/oz tot $433/oz.
De realiteit was helaas wel even anders, al gingen de koersen van de meeste goudmijnen behoorlijk hoger tijdens die rally.
De realiteit was helaas wel even anders, al gingen de koersen van de meeste goudmijnen behoorlijk hoger tijdens die rally.
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