Everything about mining is big. In fact, big is something of an understatement. The truth is its humongous just like its massive dump trucks. And to be sure those trucks are hauling a lot more than...

While investors are very familiar with gold, silver and platinum, palladium is often overlooked when considering it as a precious metal for investment purposes.

Most international market researchers are content with flipping through the pink pages of the Financial Times or turning on CNBC Asia for their next international investment idea. Not Sam Hopkins.

When Alan Greenspan turned over the keys of the printing press to Ben Bernanke earlier this year, he was hailed as the greatest central banker that ever lived. This is high praise to be sure, but...

With so much fiat money seeking safety in gold, the noble metal will have no where to go but to much higher levels. How high is anybody's guess. But I wouldn't be surprised at all to see gold...

The United States is going to experience financial consequences for its debt structure, as foreigners stop buying and holding US paper. The main reason for this incredible ability to postpone...

War fighting may be tough on the boots but its murder on the wallet. Unfortunately, Captain Allan McClain learned this lesson the hard way. And a hard lesson it was. Amazingly he laid out an...

As we look around us, the world is becoming an increasing dangerous place. Whether it is a war, a rumor of a war, terrorism, corrupt government action, insane financial risk, fiat currencies, trade...

After reading the tea leaves and the chicken entrails earlier this month white smoke was finally seen billowing from under the conference room door on Tuesday. It signaled to the anxious markets...

While the rest if the commodity world is focused on the 400,000 barrel per day oil shut-in at Prudhoe Bay, I'm looking over 7,000 miles away to the northern Atacama Desert of Chile where their...

With my apologies to William Carlos Williams and his own red wheelbarrow the current frenzy of Federal Reserve Board speculation has moved me to verse of my own.

While nobody has a crystal ball to foresee the future, recent events suggest to me that we may be coming to the end of the correction that has held most of the mining stocks hostage these past few...