Over the past 12 months, the gold mining sector has seen a tremendous amount of turmoil.
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August 3 - News
The price of gold is arguably the most critical factor among miners used by management in determining which projects should be pursued and which should be shelved.
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August 2 - News
A few years after the global economy emerged from the economic crisis of 2008, commodity prices began to surge, thanks to ongoing robust demand from China.
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July 31 - News
Barrick Gold Corporation (USA) (NYSE:ABX) will release its quarterly report on Thursday, and with the entire industry having gotten hit hard by the recent plunge in gold prices...
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July 31 - News
Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold Inc. (NYSE:FCX)'s biggest asset is also its biggest liability.
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July 30 - News
According to a Form 4 filed with the SEC, two limited partnerships connected to Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold Inc.
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July 30 - Insider Trading
The earnings season is at full speed, and big gold stocks have started reporting their financial results.
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July 29 - News
If you're like most people, you probably think the right time to start thinking about your taxes is when April rolls around on your calendar.
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July 29 - News
If the eyes are the window into a person’s soul, then on a corporate level, we can say the same about dividends. Dividend payouts cannot be faked.
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July 27 - News
The price of gold has been in a free fall for the last year, which has made me think about gold producers. In particular, I’ve been wondering about Goldcorp Inc.
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July 26 - News
For gold mining companies, things can often be a little unsettling with the swings in the commodity’s price and the challenges of operating in diverse jurisdictions.
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July 25 - News
After setting an all-time closing high on Monday, the S&P 500 Index has lost ground in the last two trading sessions, as corporate earnings fail to make a compelling bullish case...
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July 25 - News
This past April, Newmont Mining Corp (NYSE:NEM) cut its payout to investors by almost 18% to $0.35 a share.
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July 21 - News
Traditionally, gold is a safe haven asset, or it used to be. Currently, gold is anything but safe.
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July 17 - News
Every investor strives to be a contrarian; the individual who can see the wisdom and the folly of the crowd for what it is.
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July 15 - News
There are winners and losers in every gold rush; for every miner that turned up gold in California in the 19th century, hundreds got absolutely nothing.
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July 11 - News
Gold miners in general, which are represented in the Market Vectors Gold MinersETF, and the world’s biggest gold producer, Barrick Gold Corporation (USA) (NYSE:ABX), in particular...
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July 9 - News
Baron Rothschild, who made a fortune after Napoleon was defeated at Waterloo, is credited with the saying: “The time to buy is when there is blood in the streets.” In more...
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July 8 - News
Investors in the S&P 500 have to be pleased about the index's strong performance so far in 2013, with gains of about 13% marking the benchmark's best performance this millennium...
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July 5 - News
This year is a nightmare for gold investors. The precious metal has already lost 25% since January. The situation in the mining stocks is even worse.
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July 2 - News
Barrick Gold Corporation (USA) (NYSE:ABX), the world's largest gold miner by output, has delayed the opening of its newest mine as the price of gold continues to fall and the ...
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July 2 - News
If you have been following markets recently, you have undoubtedly seen the rout in gold prices with the yellow metal falling faster and farther than any other time in the last...
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June 28 - News
I recently wrote this article on the falling price of gold and how it was going to hurt mining companies.
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June 27 - News
The best thing about the stock market is that you can make money in either direction. Historically, stock indexes have tended to trend up over the long term.
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June 27 - News
Who will be left to mine the world's metals and minerals? As prices for gold, silver, copper, uranium, and iron ore continue to fall, miners are increasingly turning to layoffs...
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June 27 - News
It's well known that the gold majors are suffering from elevated all-in costs after years of reckless expansion into high risk countries and exploration overkill.
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June 26 - News
Concerns about the Federal Reserve's eventual end to its quantitative easing program changed from a relatively orderly sell-off yesterday to slightly more panicked movements today...
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June 21 - News
If you thought the reaction to yesterday's Fed commentary was overblown, don't read any further.
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June 21 - News
As I write this post gold is trading at $1,370 per troy ounce. In the past two months, the price of gold has varied between $1,347.9 and $1,415.1, depending on when this is ...
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June 20 - News
The markets saw a second straight day of big gains Tuesday, ahead of pivotal statements by Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke tomorrow on the future of monetary policy.
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June 19 - News
In the end, Kinross Gold Corporation (USA) (NYSE:KGC) had little choice but to walk away from its massive Fruta del Norte gold mining project in Ecuador.
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June 18 - News
According to the World Gold Council, 2011 was the golden period for gold as global demand for gold increased 0.4% to 4,067 tons at an estimated value of $205.5 billion, the highest...
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June 17 - News
Gold miners are not known for their shareholder returns. In fact, miners are often criticized for not returning enough cash to shareholders, choosing instead to spend their...
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June 17 - News
The mining industry can be a risky place to invest, since it is prone to great volatility and tremendous boom and bust cycles.
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June 14 - News
If you're on the hunt for income in this low-yield environment, I have just the industry for you.
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June 10 - News
From a high point near $1,900 an ounce reached in August of 2011 -- and a more recent high near $1,800 last September -- gold prices have plunged to something like $1,400 an ounce...
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June 4 - News
Fund manager and market statistician John Hussman sees bad things on the horizon. He's been buying gold shares in Hussman Strategic Total Return Fund this year.
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June 4 - News
Volatile precious metal prices, environmental concerns, and project-specific concerns are the biggest risks facing gold and silver miners.
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June 3 - News
While gold prices are falling, gold miners’ stocks are falling at a faster pace. Gold prices are down 20% year-to-date.
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May 28 - News
Friday's trading session saw a halt in trading of two major precious-metals companies on news that the Chilean government was shutting down operations at the Pascua Lama mine.
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May 28 - News
Gold's dramatic rise over the past few years has been made more interesting by its recent fall from grace. Gold currently trades around $1,365 per ounce, down significantly ...
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May 24 - News
No other metal is quite like gold. Physically, its malleable, it does not tarnish, it conducts electricity.
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May 15 - News
The basic materials sector is under-performing the overall market.
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May 14 - News
Here at The Motley Fool, we firmly believe that buying business over the long haul gives investors the best chance for succeeding in the stock market.
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May 13 - News
Following earnings results that showed a smaller-than-expected loss in the first quarter, rare-earth minerals miner Molycorp Inc (NYSE:MCP) surged 31% high on Friday as investors...
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May 12 - News
Evy Hamro the manager of BlackRock's commodities funds, recently told a room full of investors in London that 'Gold miners will become a barbarous relic, without change' after...
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May 10 - News
When the most conservative investors in the world start buying stocks because bond yields are so low, you have to wonder when the spiral comes to an end.
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May 10 - News
Few questioned the reasoning behind the thesis. Natural gas prices had been stuck in a range between $2.00-$3.30/mmBtu for almost two years.
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May 8 - News
Peru is one of the fastest growing economies in Latin America.
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May 7 - News
This series, brought to you by Yahoo! Finance, looks at which upgrades and downgrades make sense, and which ones investors should act on.
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May 6 - News