Daily Dispatches

By Max Graham
Alaska Beacon, Washington, D.C.
Friday, July 26, 2024

A cyanide spill at a major gold mine in the Yukon Territory -- high in the Yukon River watershed -- has sparked widespread concern in Canada.

But Alaska salmon advocates say the mishap isn't just a problem for Yukoners: The spill happened upstream of a tributary of the Yukon River. The Yukon is Alaska's biggest transboundary waterway, and residents along its shores who have depended on salmon for generations are already suffering amid crashes of multiple species.

9:59a ET Friday, July 26, 2024

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

Appearing this week on the Liberty and Finance channel at YouTube with host Dunagun Kaiser, GATA board member Ed Steer, publisher of Ed Steer's Gold and Silver Digest letter, says silver demand is huge and is being met mainly by dishoarding from the stash maintained by JPMorganChase, which long has been suppressing the monetary metal's price.

6:19p ET Wednesday, July 24, 2024

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

Market analyst and monetary metals advocate Peter Grandich today discussed with your secretary/treasurer GATA's 25 years of exposing manipulation of the monetary metals markets, work that has led to central banks restoring and increasing their gold reserves, as well as to the disappearance of market analysts who ridiculed assertions of market rigging only to find them documented extensively year after year.

Or maybe it's just more evidence that the Indian government is getting aboard the gold train after many years of trying to block it.

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By Rajendra Jadhav
Reuters
Tuesday, July 23, 2024

MUMBAI -- India today slashed import duties on gold and silver in a move industry officials said could lift retail demand and help cut smuggling in the world's second-biggest bullion consumer.