How to Be an (Educated) Optimist: Ivan Lo on the Enduring Value of Gold and Silver
May 24, 2013 by prospectingjournal · Leave a Comment
GUEST COMMENTARY — Source: Brian Sylvester of The Gold Report (5/24/13) Do you follow your own advice? Ivan Lo, editor and founder of Equedia.com and The Equedia Weekly Letter, does. Lo doesn’t just follow companies in the gold and silver space, he actually paused this interview with The Gold Report to receive a shipment of silver [...]
Sprott’s Charles Oliver Sees Momentum Building for Gold and Silver
October 24, 2012 by prospectingjournal · Leave a Comment
GUEST COMMENTRY–JT Long of The Gold Report (10/24/12) http://www.theaureport.com/pub/na/14628 Sprott’s Charles Oliver says it’s a great time to be heading up a precious metals fund. Gold and silver companies are trading at spectacular valuations, quantitative easings by the governments of the world are poised to strengthen the metals’ prices even further, and more bargains could [...]
Precious Metals Market Manipulation?
May 18, 2012 by prospectingjournal · Leave a Comment
GUEST COMMENTARY–Doug Casey, Casey Research For many years now, a meme has been floating around that the prices of gold and silver are being manipulated, which is to say suppressed, by various powers of darkness. This is not an unreasonable assertion. After all, the last thing the monetary powers-that-be want is to see is the [...]
Endeavour Silver Corp: Patience and Profits
March 22, 2012 by prospectingjournal · Leave a Comment
COMMENTARY-ProspectingJournal.com-Silver is a volatile metal; it isn’t a secret and there isn’t much that can be done about it. But then again, some at Vancouver based Endeavour Silver Corp. (TSX: EDR)(NYSE: EXK)(FRANKFURT: EJD) would beg to differ. Endeavour Silver has just announced record earnings for the first quarter of 2012 that are as much a [...]
The Face of Volatility
March 9, 2012 by prospectingjournal · Leave a Comment
GUEST COMMENTARY–Jeff Clark, Casey Research On February 29, gold dropped 4.8% and silver 6.2% (based on London fix prices). That’s quite the fall for one day. We’ve seen prices that have risen that much, too. But as I’m about to show, these ain’t nothin’, baby. Based on our experience, we’ve been saying for some time [...]
Silver to Boom: United Silver Corp. Announces Lucrative Project
February 29, 2012 by prospectingjournal · Leave a Comment
COMMENTARY-ProspectingJournal.com-Sitting in Northern Idaho’s silver belt in between Sunshine and Bunker, two renowned sites that once hosted world-class deposits of silver, lays the Crescent Silver Mine. The site consists of known and proven mineralization, and the beauty of it lies in the fact that it has remained largely untapped, until now. United Silver Corp. (“United [...]
Enter to Win an Ounce of Silver!
February 10, 2012 by prospectingjournal · Leave a Comment
Sign up for Prospecting Journal’s Weekly Newsletter for your chance to win an ounce of silver! Just fill out the newsletter sign up below or click the mail icon on the side bar and enter your name and email! With all these fiat currencies filling our wallets, who doesn’t want a chance to own some [...]
Silver and Gold Fear: How Scared Do They Want You to Be?
October 3, 2011 by prospectingjournal · Leave a Comment
COMMENTARY – ProspectingJournal.com – It’s unclear as to what gold and silver bugs have to complain about recently. The market has given them two, count’em, TWO big discounts with which to start buying in with both hands this year, and yet the recent kaboom in silver prices from a couple weeks ago has many heading [...]
Premature Evacuation? Silvercorp (Not) Down with Fraud
September 2, 2011 by prospectingjournal · Leave a Comment
COMMENTARY—ProspectingJournal.com—If “a gold mine is [indeed] a hole in the ground surrounded by liars,” then a Canadian-listed Chinese silver miner is a yo-yo attached to an excitable dog. Silvercorp Metals Inc. (TSX: SVM) is the latest Canadian commodity company operating in China to join the growing list of stock-blasting fraud allegations. And after the debacle surrounding [...]
Imaginary Investing In A Market Collapse
August 12, 2011 by prospectingjournal · Leave a Comment
COMMENTARY—ProspectingJournal.com—I’m a big fan of “imagine” conversations, mainly because they take me back to the glory days of high school class-skipping shenanigans. These spaced-out talks would focus on completely unrealistic projections, as participants started each scenario with a drawn-out “MAGIN” that quickly veered off into the realm of stupidity. Indeed, we were deliberately unrealistic in [...]
Debt-Terrorism and Gold Records: Just Another Day
August 4, 2011 by prospectingjournal · Leave a Comment
COMMENTARY–ProspectingJournal–Whether an illusion or not, a bubble or a parabolic paradigm shift, gold puts a smile on my face every time I hear it in the news or read about it among the vast sea of opinions. Forget the so-called economists and anti-gold philosophers: when gold goes up it does so in contrast to fear, [...]
This is not about gold cresting at $2,000 . . . Individual Prosperity remains the focus
August 3, 2011 by prospectingjournal · Leave a Comment
The Bad News: There is no place to hide! GUEST COMMENTARY–LarryMylesReports.com–Over the last three years has anyone noticed the (not too) subtle shift in the timbre of the national dialogue? During 2009, the entire western world had to suffer through a brash and overconfident Washington regime blathering on about how government would lead the way [...]
Bullion, Bitcoin and Bucks: Will the Real “Fake” Money Please Step Forward?
July 28, 2011 by prospectingjournal · 13 Comments
COMMENTARY – ProspectingJournal.com – The choice between taking payment through precious metals in physical bullion, online decentralized currency in Bitcoins, or fiat central bank notes may be not be as clear-cut in the near future. While the logical decisions made by merchants and consumers in the marketplace are often flawed and lacking the total information [...]
United Silver Corp. Announces $2,000,000 Secured Bridge Loan and $4,000,000 Private Placement Offering of Units
July 15, 2011 by prospectingjournal · Leave a Comment
VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA–(Marketwire – July 15, 2011) PRESS RELEASE–ProspectingJournal.com–United Silver Corp. (the “Company” or “USC”) (TSX:USC)(OTCQX:USCZF)(FRANKFURT:UM8) is pleased to announce that it has signed a term sheet with Forbes & Manhattan Inc. (“F&M”) with respect to entering into a $2,000,000 secured term loan facility. The term loan facility shall be secured by all of the [...]
Silver Valley’s Grande Re-Opening: Sunshine Silver Mines Goes Public
July 13, 2011 by prospectingjournal · 2 Comments
ANALYSIS—ProspectingJournal.com—These days, it doesn’t take much effort to convince the average investor to at least think about silver. The precious metal’s expanding use as a paste in solar cells has pushed its importance into the sustainable energy spotlight. Being one of the most conductive metals, its use in electronics is ever-growing. Silver nanoparticles are an [...]
What’s in a Name?: The Silver-Plating of Mining Company Monikers
July 5, 2011 by prospectingjournal · Leave a Comment
COMMENTARY – ProspectingJournal.com – What’s in a name? For some executives, the name and logo is merely a placeholder for their companies’ project portfolio, and an identifier on their business card. But for others, the name means everything, and in order to draw the right audience to their brand, they’re willing to go through the [...]
The Return to 1970’s Stagflation . . . a word very few understand
July 1, 2011 by prospectingjournal · Leave a Comment
GUEST COMMENTARY–LarryMylesReports.com–What happens when tough love does not take the first time around? Apparently, for America’s leadership, it means another humbling trek to the woodshed. As tempting as it may be to gain example and similarity between the Carter and Obama administrations, let us avoid the insipid and silly and opt for the high road. [...]
Parthenon for Sale! Economic Freedom Now the Only Freedom
June 29, 2011 by prospectingjournal · Leave a Comment
COMMENTARY—ProspectingJournal—It seems that every generation has its great defining moments, ideas, and conflicts. The storming of the Bastille, the birth of Communism, WWII, The Great Depression, the list goes on. Often, these events create movements that stand for the pursuit of something, such as freedom from oppression and overall bad guys . . . Yet, for my generation, our current quest for [...]
Dispelling the Myth of Over-Diversification: Canadian Miners Branch Out
June 27, 2011 by prospectingjournal · Leave a Comment
ANALYSIS—ProspectingJournal.com—It can seem that only in the Canadian exploration sector can you have a company that carries a vast portfolio of projects that cover potash and gold, oil and copper, silver and ore, and so on. This project diversity, once thought of as a warning sign for potential investors, is emerging as a successful (and [...]
Miners, Bankers and Investors Eye Silver–the Versatile PM
June 21, 2011 by prospectingjournal · Leave a Comment
COMMENTARY—ProspectingJournal.com—2011 has been a rollercoaster for silver, the once “Poor Man’s Gold.” Indeed, silver fans are beaming with optimism these days (though slightly shaken), as the precious metal still has a ways to go if it wants to sit at its historical price ratio with gold . . . If manipulation doesn’t keep bashing it down. [...]
Saving in Silver – A Lesson For the Young Ones
June 13, 2011 by prospectingjournal · Leave a Comment
COMMENTARY—Prospectingjournal.com— It’s been well over a month since silver flirted with the nominal record threshold price of $50 (back in late April), before outlying factors slammed the metal back to reality. Today, as of writing this piece, the price dipped back below the $35 mark for the first time since mid-May. For those who joined [...]
ProspectingFM – Ep 1: Jeff Nielson (BullionBullsCanada.com)
May 5, 2011 by prospectingjournal · Leave a Comment
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April 29, 2011 – Episode 1: In this episode we interview precious metals analyst Jeff Nielson of BullionBullsCanada.com, where we focus on our favourite topic: silver. We cover the lack of objectivity in the main stream media regarding silver’s prices, the alleged manipulation of prices by both JPMorgan and HSBC through the actions witnessed on [...]
GOLD BREAKS $1500: THE PSYCHOLOGY OF SUCH BULLISHNESS
April 20, 2011 by prospectingjournal · Leave a Comment
COMMENTARY – ProspectingJournal.com – While the bears are out there circling and declaring the precious metals market to be yet another bubble waiting to be burst like the infamous tulip-bulb market, the price of gold broke through a major psychological barrier today. Intraday prices flirted with and finally broke the $1500/oz price point yesterday, while [...]
Providence Resources and Eagle Plains Shares Overly Active Upon Gold Drilling Results
April 1, 2011 by prospectingjournal · Leave a Comment
TOP STORY – ProspectingJournal.com – Earlier this year we published a story about the $4 million non-brokered private placement of 1,000,000 shares in Providence Resources [PV - TSX.V] (then known as Providence Capital) purchased by Teck Resources [TCK.A - TSX] at $4 per share. Without having seen the results, the conclusion drawn from this end [...]
Canada’s Golden Swing-Riding: PJ’s Weekly Picks – Red Lake District Edition
March 25, 2011 by prospectingjournal · Leave a Comment
COMMENTARY – ProspectingJournal.com – A big week for precious metals saw gold hang in around the $1440 mark and silver break through the $37/oz point. While this is all going on, we get to end the week with a non-confidence vote here in Canada, thus forcing the electorate back to the polls for the first [...]
Silver Linings: Silver Companies to Watch After Silver’s $30 Week
February 10, 2011 by prospectingjournal · Leave a Comment
COMMENTARY – ProspectingJournal.com – February 10, 2011 – Trying to predict the direction in which the price of silver is going requires a lot more than spotting trends and following tickers. For many of us following the precious metals market, we must do what we can to quell our emotional attachments and look on with [...]
R.I.P. Canadian Penny, Long Live Canadian Penny Stocks
December 14, 2010 by prospectingjournal · Leave a Comment
COMMENTARY – ProspectingJournal.com – You’ve picked them up off the ground because they were lucky. You’ve left them in a dish at the counter because they were dead weight in your pocket. The days of the penny are to be coming to an end, as the Senate finance committee has officially announced the fate of [...]
