There is a difficult trend in the mining industry; something that should be a warning for gold stock investors. If you’re invested in this space, you need to be aware of what’s going on and that is the cost of producing an ounce of gold is soaring.

On June 20, 2012, the Federal Reserve had their big meeting of the FMOC (Federal Open Market Committee). The Markets had been pricing in a new round of QE3 where the Fed was going to start again buying Treasuries directly in order to inject liquidity into the markets. The markets ran up in anticipation;  as [...]

It seems that this year, investing in physical gold would have been a much better investment than investing in mining stocks. Mining company stock, pretty much across the board, have sunk to their biggest discount ever for 2012, when compared to the price of the resources (gold, silver, etc.) they produce. As many investors worry [...]

Gold miners have been hit hard because of an anticipated drop in gold prices due to bad technicals, lack of quantitative easing, a slowing economy in China and overall bearish analysts. In order to best describe this, let’s take a look at the chart of GDX (Market Vectors Gold Miners). As we can see below, [...]

A growing number of technical indicators suggest that the market is running out of steam. These include the longer term RSI (relative Strength Index), the MACD (Moving Average Convergence Divergence) and others. Equities have been in a temporary unrelenting uptrend where investors have been factoring in a strong U.S. economic recovery while also anticipating that [...]

Rises in both capital and operating costs have become a growing problem for the mining industry, which faces ever higher price tags for everything from skilled labor to power, maintenance and even explosives and prefabricated buildings. The weakening US dollar of late hasn’t helped much either as many report their earnings in US funds. I [...]

Silver has always been considered golds poor cousin. The saying went that if you can not afford gold you buy silver. If you can’t afford that nice gold necklace for your girlfriend, you buy here the silver one that only costs you a fraction of the price. That idea may be changing, especially for precious [...]

While it is really not entirely clear which way gold is headed, as it is impossible to predict the stock market or precious metal prices for that matter, it is possible to glean and make educated guess on the direction of a commodity based on the chart. This is of course known as technical analysis, [...]

We have grown accustomed to seeing gold prices rocket ever higher all year long, but as we near the end of 2011, something has changed.  Gold may not be the wondrous ever increasing in value commodity that everyone has come to love.  Now that even farmer Joe and his dog fluffy own gold, it’s probably [...]

It seems like only this past summer, gold was unstoppable. It was trading to new all time highs almost daily and euphoria was rampant. Then September came around and gold prices took a serious hit dropping from it’s all time highs of around $1,900/oz to almost $1,600/oz in what seemed to be a blink of [...]