The fall is quickly approaching and Tuesday’s price action gave investors a slight tease of what the traditionally gold-friendly season has in store this year. The usual suspects—fear-induced investment demand and gold-hungry Asia—are still driving the gold bus home for the metal’s fans.
Gold and diamond discoveries played an important part in the growth of the early Republic of South Africa, and historically the country was the world’s largest gold producer for many years and continues to possess the world’s largest quantity of gold reserves at 6000 tonnes.
The majority of gold mined in Mexico is as a co-product, first, of silver, and secondly of copper. The bedrock beneath Mexico is laden with an intricate, and valuable network of vein deposits of minerals.
Investors will know it best for its production of silver, with over 10 billion ounces mined; however, Mexico is also abundant in quantities of gold, copper, lead and zinc. Mexico’s ever-expanding gold mining industry is well positioned for a strong year in 2010, with output expected to increase by an additional 880,000 ounces to nearly 2.5 million ounces, representing an approximately 50 percent increase over 2009’s projected figures.
Gold prices traditionally rally off the summer lows in September as many players come back to the market. And if this year holds true to that seasonality, next month might turn out to be “a good September.”
Many geologists and mining experts consider the Canadian province of Québec to be an exceptional region from the standpoint of the potential wealth of its tremendous area of yet unexplored land.
The Yukon is home to the famous Klondike gold rush of the late 1890’s. Prospectors flocked to the area some 120 years ago, following the discovery of gold on Rabbit Creek in the Klondike district by George Carmack, Dawson Charlie and Skookum Jim. Now, a brand new gold rush may be just around the corner.
ETFs have generated interest among investors, who purchased $277 billion of commodity ETFs and related securities by the end of 2009, attracted primarily to the potential of low costs, stock-like features and relative tax efficiency as well as profiting from exposure to raw materials’ global demand.
British Columbia hosts a number of interesting gold and mixed metal projects in various phases of production, development, and exploration, with opportunities that might prove worthwhile for investors with net gold mining revenues in the province increasing from $231 million in 2008 to $309 million in 2009, for an increase of $78 million or 34 percent.
Sprott Asset Management’s chief investment strategist, John Embry, told Mineweb’s Gold Weekly podcast listeners Wednesday that if gold’s “not between $1,500 and $2,000 in the next 18 months, I’m dead wrong.”
Tuesday, August 31, 2010