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 | Alan Leishman |
Mineral Specimen Collecting: Silver and Gold  |
| For the last 20 years, the author has been visiting mines, mineral fairs,
and mineral dealers to purchase and self collect minerals from over 40 countries
to date.
One of his guiding inspirations was Peter Bancroft's excellent book Gem
and Crystal Treasures which describes Bancroft's selection of the 100
localities for the worlds best mineral specimens.
This essay will describe some of the background and history of famous localities,
and the minerals found there.
It isMonday, January 18, 2021 |
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| BullionStar - Bullion Star |
| The 5 Largest Gold Nuggets that Still Exist |
| Throughout gold rush and gold mining history, the discovery of a large gold nugget is a phenomenon which always causes excitement throughout a mining community as well as capturing the wider public's imagination. It has probably something to do with so much gold being found at the same time, often with relative ease.
Gold nuggets can be found in alluvial deposits (sediments formed by water movement) or in other placer deposits (formed by other movement), but gold nuggets can also be found in or Tuesday, December 15, 2020 |
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 | Mike Maloney - Goldsilver |
 Common Gold Silver Pitfalls to Avoid |
| Investing in gold and silver may seem simple and straightforward, however it is not.
There are many types of ( quote, unquote ) "investments" in gold and silver you will want to avoid.
Gold and silver dealers are no different from any other industry or crowd of people.
Within our industry you will find many good honest professionals and organizations, but you will also find some bad outfits whose practices can be described as underhanded, even criminal.
Being the Managing Director ofMonday, November 16, 2020 |
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 | Charleston Voice |
| Nazi Gold: The Merkers Mine Treasure, How the US Army Stiffed the Soviets |
| “ Patton told Bernstein that he was very glad Eisenhower was taking responsibility for the gold. Bernstein told him that he wanted to move the Merkers treasure to Frankfurt as quickly as possible and that under the Big Three arrangements at Yalta, the Merkers part of Germany would be taken over by the Russians after the war and that they certainly needed to get the treasure out of the area before the Russians got there.”
I’m intrigued what the Russian feelings might have been(are). Noted theThursday, April 23, 2020 |
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 | Mark O'Byrne - gold.ie |
| Gold Cup At Cheltenham – Gold Is For Winners, Not For the Gamblers |
| – Gold Cup at Cheltenham – ‘The Olympics’ of the European horse racing calendar
– Gold Cup trophy contains 10 troy ounces of gold – worth £9,000
– £620 million bets on horses, 230,000 pints of Guinness will be drunk, 9.2 tonnes of potato eaten
– Since the 5th century BC, gold has been the ultimate prize to award champions and gold has been constantly and universally awarded as top prize
– Gold, like the summit of human achievement, is very rare and hence precious
– Gold is a great prize and Thursday, March 15, 2018 |
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 | Peter McKenzie-Brown - Language Instinct |
| Barbecues, Booms and Blogs |
| Barbecues, Booms and Blogs
Fifty Years of Public Relations in Calgary
ISBN number: 978-1-55059-363-1
Copy for inside front cover:
Public relations is "the management function which evaluates public attitudes, identifies the policies and procedures of an individual or organization with the public interest, and plans and executes a program of action to earn understanding and acceptance."
Canadian Public Relations Society definition
Title: Barbeques, Booms and BlogsSubSunday, March 4, 2018 |
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 | Chris Powell - GATA |
| Incredible 19th-century daguerrotypes show the faces of the Gold Rush |
| After 1848 the prospectors came from all over to California for gold. The lot of them were hopeful, desperate, and ambitious -- "the Forty-Niners" they were called. At a new museum exhibit at the National Gallery of Canada in Ottawa (and in a new book), you can come face to face with them.
As these fortune-seekers arrived in the West -- 200,000 or so of them between 1849 and 1851 -- so did those hoping to chronicle their efforts. Aiming to make a few bucks by providing portraits to those who werMonday, February 19, 2018 |
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 | Mish - Global Economic Analysis |
| Bitcoin and All Existing Cryptocurrencies Headed to Zero |
| MacroVoices host Erik Townsend has me convinced that Bitcoin fans have things ass-backward. Bitcoin is headed to zero.
Whether you are a Bitcoin fan or detractor, please do yourself a favor and play this excellent Webinar with Erik Townsend.
If you are a Bitcoin fan, don't let the title ‘Biggest Speculative Mania in History' scare you away. Instead, listen to the well-reasoned statements of Townsend.
Townsend compares current Bitcoin technology to the original Wright Brothers aircraft. There wilWednesday, February 7, 2018 |
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 | Adrian Ash - Bullion Vault |
| Trump's Dollar in Cattelan's Gold Toilet |
| Jokes, art, gold and a final use for the Don's 'weak Dollar' policy...
THAT Nancy Spector at the Guggenheim in New York sounds like a right card,
writes Adrian Ash at BullionVault.
Her newly leaked
email to the Trump White House of last September declined to lend Don and Mel their desired Van Gogh ('Landscape in the Snow'), but offered instead "a marvelous wFriday, January 26, 2018 |
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| Mark O'Byrne - gold.ie |
| ‘Gold Strengthens Public Confidence In The Central Bank’ – Bundesbank |
| – ‘Availability of gold strengthens public confidence in the central bank’s balance sheet’ say Bundesbank
– Bundesbank has Audited Reserves amounting to almost 3,400 tonnes, around 68% of Bundesbank’s reserve assets
– Bank taken series of steps to increase transparency around Germany’s gold holdings
– Germany has second largest gold holdings in the world; U.S. believed to be largest
– Transparency important and all central banks should follow the Bundesbank lead
Editor: Mark O’Byrne
Germany’s cSunday, December 31, 2017 |
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 | Jesse - Le Cafe Américain |
| Stocks and Precious Metals Charts - Quiet Comex Option Expiration - |
| The rebound for gold and silver off the lows associated with the recent Non-Farm Payrolls and FOMC continued with gold taking and holding 1280 and silver putting a stick in the ground above 16.50. I lightened up on a largish short term position I had put on at the time. I did circle these instances of short term lows on the chart as you may recall.
As noted with the publication of the new Comex options calendars yesterday, today was an options expiration for precious metals.
February is thWednesday, December 27, 2017 |
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| Graham Summer - Gains Pains & Capital |
| ‘Gold Strengthens Public Confidence In The Central Bank’ – Bundesbank |
| ‘Gold Strengthens Public Confidence In The Central Bank’ – Bundesbank
- 'Availability of gold strengthens public confidence in the central bank’s balance sheet' say Bundesbank- Bundesbank has Audited Reserves amounting to almost 3,400 tonnes, around 68% of Bundesbank’s reserve assets- Bank taken series of steps to increase transparency around Germany’s gold holdings- Germany has second largest gold holdings in the world; U.S. believed to be largest- Transparency important and all central banks Tuesday, December 19, 2017 |
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 | Alasdair Macleod - Finance and Eco. |
| Gold, Goldmoney and Mene |
| Gold, ornamentation and money: that was the sequence of events. Man discovered gold, found it malleable, durable and attractive. It was first used for ornamentation, then as social economics evolved into the division of labour, its value as ornamentation and its physical properties made it the most enduring medium for money. Even to this day, Asians representing most of the world’s population still understand this connection between gold, ornamentation and money.Goldmoney has recently backed a nWednesday, November 1, 2017 |
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 | James Howard Kunstler |
| No Joy in Trumpville |
| I took advantage of the calm before the storm, to pay a visit on Saturday to my hometown, Trumpville, a.k.a. Manhattan. My college buddy had a son who was acting in an off-Broadway play (closing night, so don’t bother asking). The city I knew as a kid — which, frankly, I never liked very much — seemed as lost and far away as Peter Stuyvesant’s quaint Dutch colonial outpost did to me in 1962.
That lost city of my childhood was one in which a boy could breeze right into the Metropolitan Museum ofTuesday, October 10, 2017 |
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| Peter McKenzie-Brown - Language Instinct |
| The Suncor Story |
| This article is largely the text of a presentation I recently gave for the launch of my latest book.
The well-attended event took place at the Glenbow Museum in Calgary.
The image above is a map of Alberta’s oil sands, and its purpose is to
orient you geographically to the oil sands themselves. I have registered the
book as a Canada 150 publication, so it sports that logo.
In global terms, the oil sands are the world’s second-largest
petroleum resource. Only Venezuela has more bitumenWednesday, September 13, 2017 |
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| Peter McKenzie-Brown - Language Instinct |
| A Book Launch |
| You're Invited...
To the
Glenbow for refreshments and the launch of a comprehensive new history of
Alberta’s oil sands
September
11, 2017
2-4
p.m.
Glenbow
Museum, 130 9 Ave. S.E., Calgary; T2G 0P3
Registered as a Canada 150 publication, this book tells
the stories of the world’s second-largest petroleum resource, almost all of
which exists within Alberta.
The many
tales woven into the book speculate about the uses indigenous people had for
this material. However, the known story doesn’tWednesday, August 9, 2017 |
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| Chris Powell - GATA |
| German police search for stolen gold coin the size of a manhole cover |
| Brother, can you spare a gigantic gold coin?
Hundreds of special German police officers executed raids across several buildings across southern Berlin early today, nabbing four suspects in the hunt for a 220-pound gold coin valued at about $3.9 million. It was stolen from Berlin's Bode Museum in March, where it had been since 2010.
The police, who conducted the raids wearing masks and strapped with heavy weapons according to the Associated Press, are questioning nine others in connection with thThursday, July 13, 2017 |
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| Peter McKenzie-Brown - Language Instinct |
| Author collates science and sweat of oilsands past |
| Oil sands scientist Karl Clark (right) and unidentified assistants, c. 1950
Some years ago, the Calgary Herald's Stephen Ewart attended a presentation I gave on the oil sands, and wrote it up for his newspaper. That talk formed the basis of a book I recently published. Titled Bitumen: The people, performance and passions behind Alberta's oil sands and registered as a Canada 150 project, it went on sale through Amazon today; a Kindle version follows next week. Here's the table of contents.
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| Bullion Vault |
| Gold Price Slips vs. Falling Dollar as Oil Bounces, Bank of England Split Boosts 'Brexit-Hit' Pound |
| GOLD PRICES held near 5-week lows against a falling US Dollar on Wednesday, trading at $1243 per ounce as commodities rallied but world stock markets extended Tuesday's retreat in New York.
As Brent crude oil rallied $1 per barrel from yesterday's 7-month lows near $45, that pulled the EuroStoxx 50 index of major European shares more than 1% lower.
The British Pound meantime rallied aftWednesday, June 21, 2017 |
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| Mark O'Byrne - gold.ie |
| Gold Sovereigns – ‘Treasure’ Trove Found In UK – Don’t Be The Piano Owner |
| Gold Sovereigns – ‘Life Changing’ ‘Treasure’ Trove Found In UK
The gold sovereigns – semi-numismatic gold coins made up of both gold sovereigns and half gold sovereigns dating from the reigns of Victoria, Edward VII and George V – were discovered inside an old piano after it was donated to a school last year.
A gold sovereign from that period is currently valued at between £200-250, with a half sovereign worth between £100-200. A pouch contains just a sampling of the 913 coins composing the hoarMonday, April 24, 2017 |
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