Brian Sylvester: Labor problems and low prices have platinum mines closing up shop in South Africa, and the potential for acquisitions is ripening. Senior Mining Analyst and Managing Director at Stifel Nicolaus in Toronto, George Topping believes Read more…

PPLT

Brian Sylvester: Henk J. Krasenberg, analyst and founder of the European Gold Centre and author and publisher of the GOLDVIEW newsletter, sees no lack of potential among small-cap equities, especially for investors willing to look beyond the U.S. borders. Read more…

NYSE:GDX

Brian Sylvester: A third round of quantitative easing won’t help support platinum and palladium prices, according to Erica Rannestad, platinum group metals specialist with CPM Group in New York. So, what will drive the platinum group metals, which have been Read more…

PALL, PPLT

Brian Sylvester: Resource developers, especially in the rare earths space, are suffering from the market’s obsession with immediate results, says Byron King, writer and editor for Agora Financial’sOutstanding Investmentsand Energy & Scarcity Investor newsletters Read more…

REMX

Brian Sylvester: The world still needs gold and other natural resources, but we may need a new investment model to sustain them, says Byron King, writer and editor for Agora Financial’s Outstanding Investments and Energy & Scarcity Investor newsletters and contributor to the Daily Resource Hunter. Read more…

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Brian Sylvester: For his money—and the portfolio he offers investors is also his own—Ron Hera, founder of Hera Research, wants uniquely good companies. In an exclusive interview with The Gold Report, Hera shares why he is bullish on gold, finds silver Read more…

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Brian Sylvester: The market is like a kid that can only ride a bike with training wheels on it, according to Robert Cohen of GCIC Ltd. As portfolio manager of the Dynamic Precious Metals Fund and the Dynamic Strategic Gold Class Fund (sold in Canada) and the Dynamic Gold Read more…

NYSE:GDXJ

Brian Sylvester: Silver has been called the most volatile of metals. But volatility produces opportunity, according to Chris Thompson, a top-ranked StarMine analyst with Haywood Securities. In this exclusive interview with The Gold Report, Thompson forecasts a strong year Read more…

NYSE:SLV

Brian Sylvester: Is the rare earths space (NYSEARCA:REMX) an industry in decline, a bubble popped? Not so, according to Jon Hykawy, head of global research and a clean technologies analyst at Byron Capital Markets. Hykawy tells The Critical Metals Report in this exclusive interview that establishing Read more…

REMX

Brian Sylvester: The rare earths (NYSEARCA:REMX) business isn’t unlike a Formula One race, according to Carolyn Dennis, vice-president and senior analyst with Dundee Capital Markets. Companies are speeding to reach production and find strategic partners to grease the wheels to the finish. While several Read more…

REMX

Brian Sylvester: Ongoing inflation pressures and China’s investments in the African gold supply chain point to a higher gold price according to Matt Badiali of Stansberry & Associates. Bullion in all its forms belongs in every portfolio and when it comes to equities, investors have their choice of business models— Read more…

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Brian Sylvester: Barry Allan, vice chairman of Mackie Research Capital Corp.’s mining group, is guarded about gold equities from March to May, statistically the weakest period. However, Allan remains bullish on gold stocks through the end of the year and has Buy recommendations on more than 70% of his Read more…

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Brian Sylvester:  While gold equities continue to trail the gold price, junior stocks are gaining traction according to Doug Groh, co-portfolio manager and senior analyst with Tocqueville Asset Management. He believes investors should not let the market’s risk aversion keep them out of a stock picker’s market. The Read more…

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Brian Sylvester:  What do the gold market and the weather have in common? You can forecast both, but predict neither, according to Brien Lundin, chief executive of Jefferson Financial and publisher of Gold Newsletter. Lundin, who also organizes the New Orleans Investment Conference, isn’t focusing on if Read more…

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Brian Sylvester:  Brent Cook, editor of Exploration Insights, describes the past 15 years of change in gold, copper and iron. In this exclusive interview with The Gold Report, he shares what he sees as the fatal flaws and opportunities in this complex industry, details the most important factors he looks for before Read more…

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