The U.S. Mint has been rationing the volume of silver eagles released to the public since July 2015. The Royal Canadian Mint has followed suit. The Australian Perth Mint, has increased their monthly production of silver coins more than two fold. This is the backdrop which is shining a light…
The U.S. and world markets will crack in 2016. This will be due to the extremely low price of oil. There is a possibility that oil will drop below $20 as storage levels increase towards capacity in the United States. Already oil storage at Gulf Coast and Cushing, Oklahoma are…
There was a recent report stating that global silver production increased in 2015. Sadly to say, it was wrong. World silver production did not rise in 2015, it declined. The folks at Smaulgld.com put out an article yesterday titled, Global Silver Mining Production Increases In 2015. In the article Smaulgld…
The U.S. suffered another sizable gold supply deficit in 2015. Matter a fact, the deficit was 50% larger than in 2014. In 2015, total U.S.gold demand was 118 metric tons (mt) higher than total supply versus 77 mt in 2014. According to figures put out by the USGS, World Gold…
As market turmoil continues to push gold and silver prices higher, precious metal investors need to understand the fundamentals more than ever. Unfortunately, there continues to be a lot of misinformation reported by sources in the precious metal community. This is harmful as it confuses would be precious metal investors….
The low price of silver has finally claimed is first victim. Endeavour Silver announced that it will cut silver production by 25% in 2016. The company has three mines working in Mexico and will produce 7.2 million oz (Moz) of silver in 2015. However, Endeavour plans to shut down production…