Jordan Roy-Byrne CMT, MFTA

In recent weeks we’ve written about the decoupling or negative correlation between the equity market and mining equities. As the miners take a hard turn lower and the S&P 500 continues higher, this current trend is all the more obvious. At the same time, commodity prices have been in a cyclical bear and have struggled … Continue reading

Here is my interview with MetalsNews.com.

Great interview with fund manager and author of Short Side of Long blog, Tiho Brkan. Tiho comments on the equity market and precious metals.

Balmoral Resources Ltd. has commenced the 2013 drill program on the company’s wholly owned Detour gold trend project in central Quebec. The principal focus of the 2013 winter drill program will be the further delineation and expansion of the known zones on the Martiniere property. During 2012, the company successfully continued the expansion of the … Continue reading

Huldra ships 227 dmt Pb/Ag, 149 dmt Zn concentrates…

This piece expounds upon what we covered last week. In that piece, regarding Gold, we concluded: If Gold is able to firm up here and now then it has a good shot to rally back to $1750-$1800 over the next few months. If we get the bullish scenario and a fundamental catalyst shift then expect … Continue reading

According to Stephen Letwin, CEO of IamGold, we could be at peak Gold right now because the industry has already exploited its best reserves. Global gold production in the first nine months of 2012 fell 1 percent from a year earlier to 61.5 million ounces, according to Bloomberg. The average ore grade of reserves at … Continue reading

Today, Greg Weldon covered it all. We started with Bonds then moved to Europe (with some comments on the Fed in between). Later we moved to Gold and Greg likes the technical setup. According to Greg, 2013 has the largest amount of debt that must be sold by most major governments. Of course that could … Continue reading

..The Martiniere and Fenelon Properties form part of the Company’s Detour Gold Trend Project. The N2 Property is located approximately 80 kilometres to the southeast..

Contrarians are you paying attention? Bloomberg reports that hedge funds cut their bets on commodities to a six-month low even as commodities have rallied a bit. Speculators trimmed net-long positions across 18 futures and options by 5.4 percent to 654,443 contracts in the week ended Jan. 8, the lowest since June 19, U.S. Commodity Futures … Continue reading