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Precious Metals Depositories Increasingly used to Store Personal and Organizational Assets

Financial turmoil on a global scale has encouraged investment in physical stores of precious metal bullion. Silver and gold are … Continue reading

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Precious Metal Ore in Landfills Trumps Mine Production

Precious metal ore in tons of electronic devices are thrown into the world’s landfills every year by the thousands. Scrapped … Continue reading

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Olympic Silver and Gold Medals Contain more than 90% Silver

More than eight tons of precious metals, mostly silver and gold or copper, have been refined for this summer’s Olympic … Continue reading

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Fed’s Extension of Operation Twist Accelerates Precious Metals Valuation Slide

Lack of action from the Federal Reserve to use quantitative easing to stimulate the sluggish US economy has caused precious … Continue reading

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Yamana Acquires Extorre Gold

Toronto’s Yamana Gold, Inc. announced this week that it will acquire Extorre Gold Mines Ltd. for a hefty $400 million. … Continue reading

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This Week’s Gold and Silver Outlook

Gold and silver have been maintaining a very slow upward trend over the last week. Gold rose by 2.31% and … Continue reading

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Top Junior Mining Interests Join Forces to Form U.S. Silver & Gold

Junior precious metals miner, U.S. Silver has plans to takeover another junior mining interest, RX Gold & Silver. Both companies … Continue reading

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Silver May be More Useful than Gold in the Face of Fiscal Turmoil

The argument for gold ownership is relentless and unwavering. Gold is one of the most valuable commodities on earth, and … Continue reading

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Coin Collectors Settle on Definition of “Coin Doctoring”

Purchasers of collectible silver and gold coins may become victims of deliberate coin alteration. The Professional Numismatists Guild (PNG) has … Continue reading

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