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Stefan Gleason: Blundering miners are dumping every ounce they produce

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By Stefan Gleason
Money Metals Exchange, Eagle, Idaho
Tuesday, September 3, 2024

On an annual basis, global silver supply generated by mines seems to have run into a ceiling of about 1 billion ounces. Supply has essentially flat-lined over the past several years.

At the same time, explosive growth in demand from photovoltaics (solar panels) and electric vehicles is driving widening projected supply deficits for physical silver.

Ronan Manly: Central bank digital currencies are accelerating toward dystopia

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By Ronan Manly
Bullion Star, Singapore
Wednesday, September 4, 2024

There is an ominous development gaining momentum across the world's financial systems that has the potential to undermine monetary and personal freedom yet remains largely under the radar for most of the world's population.

This development is the globally coordinated plan to roll out retail central bank digital currencies (CBDCs). 

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Argentina's central bank is sore that anyone might know what it's doing with gold

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Argentina Ships Gold Bars Abroad to Be Financially Certified

By Ignacio Olivera Doll
Bloomberg News
via Yahoo News, Sunnyvale, California
Monday, September 2, 2024

Argentina's central bank sent part of its gold reserves abroad in recent weeks to be validated for financial use, a move that could give the country some much-needed flexibility, according to people with direct knowledge of the matter.

On Liberty and Finance, GATA's Ed Steer details silver market manipulation

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9:58p ET Saturday, August 31, 2024

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

GATA board member Ed Steer, publisher of Ed Steer's Gold and Silver Digest letter, joins Dunagun Kaiser on YouTube's Liberty and Finance channel to discuss the concentrated and collusive short position in silver futures that suppresses the monetary metal's price. He believes that Asian demand for real metal will defeat the racket.

The discussion is 34 minutes long and can be viewed at YouTube here:

On LFTV, Bill Holter and Andrew Maguire discuss BRICS, gold, and market manipulation

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8:34p ET Saturday, August 31, 2024

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

Market commentator Bill Holter joins London metals trader Andrew Maguire on this week's edition of Kinesis Money's "Live from the Vault" program, discussing the likely incorporation of gold into the trading currency contemplated by the BRICS nations, as well as the longstanding manipulation of the monetary metals markets.

The discussion is an hour long and can be viewed at YouTube here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KduC0UcKYTA

Eric Sprott reflects on the frustration and opportunity of the monetary metals

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10:57p ET Friday, August 30, 2024

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

Mining entrepreneur Eric Sprott returns today to the Sprott Money monthly wrapup with Craig Hemke of the TF Metals Report, discussing the long-term frustration of monetary metals investors and what he sees as the spectacular and unappreciated potential in many gold and silver mining companies.

He helpfully specifies some of the companies he finds especially prospective.

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Ghana to launch 'monster mines' to boost gold production

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By Maxwell Akalaare Adombila
Reuters
Thursday, August 29, 2024

ACCRA, Ghana -- Africa's top gold producer, Ghana, will commission its first large-scale greenfield mine in more than a decade in November, with expected annual production of more than 350,000 ounces, the head of its mining sector regulator told Reuters.

The Cardinal Namdini mine is owned by Cardinal Resources, a unit of Shandong Gold, which received a licence for the facility in 2020.

Stefan Gleason: Holding gold yields better returns than mining for it

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By Stefan Gleason
Money Metals Exchange, Eagle, Idaho
Thursday, August 29, 2024

With spot gold prices at record highs, investors might expect that shares of precious metals mining companies are also trading at record highs.

By and large, that is not the case.

Mining stocks, as represented by the HUI Gold BUGS Index, are still under water by more than 40% compared to their 2011 highs. And that's despite being pulled up significantly this year by soaring gold and silver prices.

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Burkina Faso nationalizes two gold mines mired in legal dispute

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By Harry Dempsey and Aanu Adeoye
Financial Times, London
Tuesday, August 27, 2024

Burkina Faso has struck a deal for about $80 million to nationalize two gold mines that London-listed Endeavour Mining agreed last year to sell to Lilium Mining for more than $300 million.

China's silver takeover may aim to drain the West

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By Tim Zyla
Jerusalem Post
Wednesday, August 21, 2024

While the world has been focused on the geopolitical tensions between China and the West, a more subtle battle has been unfolding in the global financial markets. 

China, through a series of calculated moves, has been quietly accumulating vast quantities of gold and silver. This move has signaled a potential shift in the global economic landscape and highlights the developing country's need for exorbitant amounts of resources.

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