First Andes Silver CLOSES ACQUISITION OF SILVER PROJECTS IN NEW SOUTH WALES, AUSTRALIA
First Andes Silver CLOSES ACQUISITION OF SILVER PROJECTS IN NEW SOUTH WALES, AUSTRALIA ————————— Vancouver, British Columbia – February 3, 2026 – First Andes Silver Ltd. (TSXV: FAS; OTC Markets: MSLVF; FSE: 9TZ0) (“First Andes” or the “Company”) today announced that it has completed its acquisition of three (3) silver-focused exploration projects known as the […]
Chinese Speculators Prepare for a Gold and Silver Market Crash
Stock image. In the history of the silver market, prices had traded above $40 an ounce for only a handful of brief periods before last year. On Friday, exhausted traders watched in shock as the precious metal plunged by that much in less than 20 hours. For weeks, traders across the metals world have spent […]
Op-Ed: Upholding Bretton Woods Principles in Absence of Bretton Woods Politics
Stock image. Long before modern states claimed monopoly control over money, international trade depended on trusted systems that operated outside sovereign authority. In medieval Europe, merchants travelling between cities and kingdoms faced a familiar challenge. Transporting physical gold, much as today, was dangerous, inefficient, and vulnerable to theft, seizure, or political interference. In that environment, […]
Paulson Increases Stake in International Tower Hill Amid Alaska Gold Project Development
Work on the Livengood gold project in Alaska. Credit: International Tower Hill Mines International Tower Hill Mines (TSX: ITH, NYSE-AM: THM) tapped leading shareholder and hedge fund Paulson and Co. to raise a large chunk of its financing this week for the Livengood gold project in Alaska that’s also bolstered by rising prices for the […]
CHART: Friday Bloodbath for Mining Stocks, Yet Copper Prices Recover from Plunge
Stock image. Precious metals and copper prices plunged on Friday as investors took the nomination of a new Fed chair as an excuse to book profits on the metals which have rallied to record highs this week. Gold futures dropped as low as $4,700 an ounce before recovering some of those losses in afternoon trade […]
Zijin Mining Targets $1.5 Billion through Convertible Bonds Amid Rising Gold Prices
Zijin Mining Group Co. has raised $1.5 billion from the sale of bonds that can be converted into stock as the price of gold hits record highs. The Chinese miner offered convertible bonds due 2031 at zero coupon, according to a stock-exchange filing on Friday. Zijin Mining plans to use proceeds to fund capital expenditure […]
Minaurum Unveils Resource Estimate for Alamos Silver Project in Mexico
Alamos project area in Sonora, Mexico. Image from Minaurum Silver. Minaurum Silver (TSXV:MGG) announced Wednesday it has completed an inferred mineral resource estimate (MRE) at its 100%-owned Alamos silver project in Sonora, Mexico. The resource totalled 5.37 million tonnes grading 202 g/t silver, 0.21 g/t gold, 0.43% copper, 0.97% lead, and 2.01% zinc, or 320 g/t in silver equivalent. The contained metals are 34.8 […]
RUA GOLD Secures C$33 Million in Financing
RUA GOLD Closes C$33 million Financing – Rua Gold This news release is intended for distribution in Canada only and is not intended for distribution to United States newswire services or dissemination in the United States. VANCOUVER, BC, January 28, 2026 – RUA GOLD INC. (“RUA GOLD” or the “Company”) (TSXV: RUA) (OTCQB: NZAUF) is […]
Tether Disrupts Gold Market with Substantial Metal Reserves
Image: Generation Grundeinkommen. There are roughly 370,000 nuclear bunkers in Switzerland, a legacy of the Cold War that are now rarely used. One of them, though, is a hive of activity. Every week, more than a ton of gold is hauled in to the high-security vault, owned by crypto giant Tether Holdings SA, which is […]
Options Traders Anticipate Further Gold Price Surge Following Break Above $5,000
Options traders are betting on a further rally in gold prices after the precious metal smashed through $5,000 an ounce for the first time ever. Bullion surged 2.5% to top $5,100 in a broad metals rally that’s fueled partly by the reopening of the so-called debasement trade, as investors shied away from sovereign bonds and […]