Gold & Silver Bullion

Not All That Glitters is Gold
Ocala
The axiom that all that glitters is not gold has fresh meaning with the price of gold bullion topping record highs. Consumers are promised top dollar for everything from dental gold to gold coins. They are exhorted to buy gold as the one “safe hedge” against inflation, deflation, the falling dollar and other maladies. The truth is, gold can be a safe, profitable investment; is often counterfeited; is bought and sold by honest and dishonest dealers; and a consumer’s best protection is knowledge.
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Gold Gains With Halt in Dollar’s Rally
Bloomberg
Gold gained the most in a week as a halt in the dollar’s rally may increase demand for the metal as an alternative investment. The U.S. Dollar Index, a six-currency gauge of the greenback’s strength, fell as much as 0.4 percent after last week climbing to the highest level in almost seven months. Gold futures, which usually move inversely to the dollar, slid to a three-month low of $1,044.50 an ounce on Feb. 5.
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The Fateful Hour
Goldseek
Gold’s action was scary last week – for all those who focus only on the short term.  But these are precisely the people who cannot see the big picture. And because they cannot see the big picture they cannot predict the big move.  And the big money, I remind you, is made in the big move.
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Silver Market Update
Kitco
Silver did exactly what was predicted in last weekend’s update – it bounced off the support of its long-term uptrend line before reversing and crashing through it spectacularly on Thursday, but then on Friday it bounced back strongly in the late trade, leaving behind a bull hammer on the chart, leading bulls to declare that “the correction is over”. The questions therefore are “Was it a correction and is it over?”
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Strong Yukon Gold Anomaly
Market Watch
The soil sample results delineated a prominent east-west belt of very high gold values with most samples ranging from 25 ppb to 256 ppb across the 700 meter grid length. The width of this anomalous belt ranges from 100 to 150 meters. The belt widens at the west edge of the grid with contiguous line of low anomalous gold values from 15 to 25 ppb extending to the north limit of the grid. The east and west ends and parts of the north and southwest grid limits of the anomaly belt remain open for further expansion of the anomaly. Additionally, south of the east-west anomaly another cluster of contiguous samples carrying a span of elevated gold values exceeding 15 ppb to 6082 ppb, the highest value detected on the grid.
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European ETF Provider Makes Mark in the U.S.
Bank Investment Consultant
One of the biggest names in exchange-traded funds in Europe is beginning to make their mark in America. ETF Securities, the largest provider of exchange-traded commodity products in Europe, crossed over into the U.S. less than six months ago and is already gaining a following in an industry largely controlled by an elite group of veterans. The firm’s first product on the U.S. market, the ETFS Physical Silver Shares, launched in July, followed just two months later by the ETFS Physical Swiss Gold Shares. After seeing significant traction into the funds, the firm launched the ETFS Physical Platinum Shares and the ETFS Physical Palladium Shares.
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