The European Commission has identified 14 mineral raw materials, including several metals and metal groups, which have high supply risks and could face shortages resulting from limited production sources and high demand....

Gold is now legit -- no longer can it be dismissed as the asset of choice for fringe types with a cellar full of canned goods and a stash of bullion buried in the backyard....

What the world is lacking is low-cost production. Anyone who can come up with a sub-$30 deposit capable of producing on any kind of scale will have something very valuable....

Certainly it will turn into a bubble before this is all over but we are hardly in the bubble stage yet....

There is another side to this particular coin, a side that should give investors looking at the rare earth mining sector pause....

Central banks as a group will continue building official gold reserves as a means of diversification and reducing exposure to U.S. dollar-related risks....

Sometimes the very smallest part of a complicated piece of equipment can bring down the entire project. ...

Shares of Gammon Gold tumbled Thursday after the company announced it had terminated 397 union workers at its El Cubo mine in Mexico on the day before....

Unlike the Australian dollar, gold pays less interest than even the U.S. dollar or Japanese yen....

If the Chinese currency strengthens, then yuan-denominated wage increases will have an even-more-inflationary effect on the cost of China-made goods....

Coeur d'Alene Mines Corp. said its Coeur Alaska unit had contracted with China National Gold Corp. for the purchase and processing of about half of the concentrates it will shortly begin producing at its Kensington gold mine in Alaska....

All 11 people on a chartered plane taking executives of Sundance Resources Ltd. to the company's Mbalam iron ore project on the Cameroon-Congo Brazzaville border have died in a crash near the Gabonese border, spokesmen for the company said Monday....

Who in their right mind would suggest that gold would eventually reach $2,500, let alone $5,000 or even $10,000? ...

Over the past month or so, precious-metals stocks' performance has been frustrating. Even though gold looks great, lazily meandering over $1,200 without a care in the world, the PM stocks have drifted sideways to lower....

It is not exactly groundbreaking analysis to say that whats good for gold is generally good for silver. ...

Royal Gold Inc. said it had priced a public offering of 5.2 million common shares at $48.50 each to raise about $240.3 million after expenses....

Gold made new all-time highs again today. So let's see what the momentum indicator is telling us. ...

Perceptions that the global recovery process could be derailed by certain observed trends sank the euro to a one-week low overnight and reignited at least some of the recently faltering safe-haven quest for gold. ...

Trading tenor changed mid-course and precious metals prices finished with rather significant losses across the board....

Gold held in a tight range on the international wholesale market Tuesday, trading back down from $1240 to last night's two-session low of $1232 an ounce as world stock markets caught up with Wall Street's late fall....

Bullish on stocks for the short term and thinking we could retest the April high in the next month or two. ...

China's weekend announcement that it would give the yuan greater "flexibility" quickly became the dominant financial news item and driver of many a market value. ...

Is history set to repeat, or Is this time different? ...

Gold prices broke above the $1,252 resistance zone and surged ahead to near $1,260 the ounce, well ahead of the New York market's opening on Friday. ...

Gold slipped back from an early one-week high versus the dollar on Wednesday, trading 0.8% higher from the previouos London Gold Fix as a rise in Asian equities failed to spur stock markets....

Thank you, Bron, for clearing the air on the non-existence of gold in the LME's vaults. It is about time someone with real knowledge did it. ...

It's been a bright week so far for stocks and commodities. It appears that the down trend could have ended as of Tuesday....