The US Mint announced another 300,000 silver eagles sold Monday, bringing the 6 day sales total to an astonishing (and record pace) of 5.082 million ounces

The US Federal Reserves holds 45 percent of Germany's 3396 tons of gold while the Bank of England holds 13 percent and the Bank of France holds 11 percent. The rest is with the Bundesbank headquarters in Frankfurt.

The knock down the silver price experienced towards the end of last year may have spooked many considering silver investment, however market analysts and the fundamentals are all pointing to big gains in the next year suggesting now might be the...

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The bicentenary of Australia's first coins, the Holey Dollar and Dump, has been recognised on Australia's first coin of the year in the traditional coin strike on New Year's Day at the Royal Australian Mint in Canberra.

The bank reduced its 2013 average price forecast for gold by 6.9% to $1,680 a troy ounce and its 2014 forecast by 9.8% to $1,838/oz.

During 2012, the Royal Canadian Mint produced the final one cent coins for circulation following the decision to discontinue the denomination. The last one million pieces produced had been held back for inclusion within numismatic products.

The American Eagle Silver Proof Coins are struck using .999 fine silver blanks that are specially treated and cleaned to ensure high-quality strikes.

Money-lender Datta, 32, from Pimpri-Chinchwad, says the shirt took a team of 15 goldsmiths two weeks to make working 16 hours a day.

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WASHINGTON -- The U.S. Treasury Department will not mint a high-value platinum coin to avert the debt ceiling, according to an official statement from the Obama administration obtained by the Huffington Post on Saturday.

India is the largest importer of gold. In 2011-12, the country imported gold worth $62 billion as compared to $43 billion in the preceding year.

World's largest gold consumer India's current account deficit widened to 4.2 per cent of GDP in 2011-12, and had touched a record high of 5.4 per cent during in the July-September quarter of the current fiscal.

Le cours du métal précieux est tombé sous la barre des 1600 dollars l’once. Les mauvaises nouvelles macroéconomiques ne suffisent plus à pousser les investisseurs vers cette valeur refuge....

Les fourmilières et termitières cachent bien des trésors.

Les chercheurs du Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) ont eu l’idée de tester ces petits insectes en tant que détecteurs de gisement d’or.