Silver's sharp rise prompts U.S. mint to suspend coin sales pending repricing
Submitted by admin on Thu, 2026-01-15 19:14 Section: Daily DispatchesBy Stuart Englert
https://stuartenglert.substack.com
Thursday, January 15, 2026
Rapidly rising silver prices have created a dilemma for the U.S. Mint, which has suspended sales of all silver coins until it can reprice the products on its website.
All silver products are "temporarily unavailable" for purchase "until we update the website with new prices," a mint sales representative told me today when I inquired via a toll-free customer-service telephone number.
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Ghana to scrap mining stability pacts and double royalties, Reuters says
Submitted by admin on Thu, 2026-01-15 18:49 Section: Daily DispatchesBy Maxwell Akalaare Adombila and Emmanuel Bruce
Reuters
Thursday, January 15, 2026
ACCRA -- Ghana will scrap long-term mining investment stability agreements and double royalties under sweeping reforms, the regulator in Africa's top gold producer told Reuters, as it seeks to capture more benefits from surging bullion prices.
The changes are part of a broad overhaul aimed at balancing investor confidence with the government's push to reap greater rewards from mining, Isaac Tandoh, acting CEO of the Minerals Commission, said in an interview in Accra.
Jeremy Warner: Trump's unwitting role in the staggering rise of the oldest currency
Submitted by admin on Thu, 2026-01-15 10:24 Section: Daily DispatchesMaybe it's not really so "unwitting," Mr. Warner.
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By Jeremy Warner
The Telegraph, London
Thursday, January 15, 2026
Sell the dollar, buy gold. Few investment strategies have worked better than this over the first year of Donald Trump's second presidency, and it looks set to continue that way.
In the past year the dollar has undergone its worst overall devaluation since the 1970s. At the same time, the price of gold has surged nearly 75% to record highs.
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Silver falls, then recovers after Trump holds off on critical mineral tariffs
Submitted by admin on Thu, 2026-01-15 10:02 Section: Daily DispatchesBy Yihui Xie and Jack Ryan
Bloomberg News
Thursday, January 15, 2026
Silver pulled back from a record high as investors took profits after a blistering rally and as the United States refrained from imposing import tariffs on critical minerals.
The white metal fell as much as 7.3% today before recovering much of the loss later in the session. Prices had surged by more than 20% over the previous four sessions, reaching an all-time high of $93.75 Wednesday.
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Myrmikan's Dan Oliver: Gold is the best measure of the value of other assets
Submitted by admin on Thu, 2026-01-15 09:39 Section: Daily Dispatches9:43a ET Thursday, January 15, 2026
Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:
In his new analysis, Myrmikan Capital manager Dan Oliver explains today how gold, as the best form of money, is also the best measure of the value of other assets, though, as now, gold will get ahead of prices generally and they eventually will catch up to gold.
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There's no real metal behind Comex's new junior silver futures contract
Submitted by admin on Thu, 2026-01-15 08:17 Section: Daily DispatchesThe announcement cites "record retail demand" -- but demand for what? Silver or paper? Is Comex just trying to divert investors from real metal and back into its usual racket, empty derivatives?
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CME Group to Launch 100-Ounce Silver Futures to Meet Record Retail Demand
From CME Group, Chicago
Tuesday, January 13, 2026
