Chris Powell of GATA: Gold Manipulation Historical Fact Not Conspiracy Theory - Confirmed by DOJ.

  How much of this rigging game in all commodities markets will see the light of the day now? Will feds prosecute the FED? Too much to ask, but the timing is very interesting now. 

At Least Ten Banks Face U.S. Manipulation Probe Over Gold and Silver Pricing.

   We have the breaking news for the all Gold community. Another conspiracy theory is getting under the spotlight on its way to the courtrooms. But can we actually believe that it will be different this time? Manipulation is part of the system and Central Banks are doing it all the time, will public even take notice? Gold manipulation affects all investors as the scale  of FIAT currency debasement is hidden from the public. Needless to say, that when all Central banks are involved in Currency Wars Gold should act as the real store of value in the normal market circumstances. Companies like us are affected as well, when the suppressed gold price reduce the valuations of the projects and prevents us from normal access to the capital. FED is walking the very fine line now with the economy and if the rate hike will not match the investors' expectations US Dollar parabolic move will end with the sharp correction.  This investigation should bring the new dynamic to the Gold market now. Read more."

Who Is Manipulating The Gold Market And Why?

  "Gold is under pressure today and sliding from $1,300 level reached last week towards $1,250. Good day to check on Gold fundamentals with Chris Martenson and Gold manipulation with Chris Powell from GATA. The key to the Bull market is price action with higher lows and higher highs ... Gold is making it so far from last December. How long the manipulation by Central Banks can take its place and distort all markets and Gold primarily? China can be the answer and Jim Rickards even goes as far as suggesting that China is benefiting from this arranged manipulation accumulating all available Gold now. I do not know whether China participate in this manipulation with FED and other Central Banks, but it is definitely buying all the dips so far! Read more."

Alaska - NOVAGOLD Marks 2014 by Reaching Important Milestones in Advancing Permitting of Donlin Gold.

At Least Ten Banks Face U.S. Manipulation Probe Over Gold and Silver Pricing.

 

  We have the breaking news for the all Gold community. Another conspiracy theory is getting under the spotlight on its way to the courtrooms. But can we actually believe that it will be different this time? Manipulation is part of the system and Central Banks are doing it all the time, will public even take notice? Gold manipulation affects all investors as the scale  of FIAT currency debasement is hidden from the public. Needless to say, that when all Central banks are involved in Currency Wars Gold should act as the real store of value in the normal market circumstances. Companies like us are affected as well, when the suppressed gold price reduce the valuations of the projects and prevents us from normal access to the capital. FED is walking the very fine line now with the economy and if the rate hike will not match the investors' expectations US Dollar parabolic move will end with the sharp correction.  This investigation should bring the new dynamic to the Gold market now.

Bloomberg:

Banks Face U.S. Manipulation Probe Over Metals Pricing

(Bloomberg) -- The U.S. Justice Department is investigating whether the world’s biggest banks manipulated prices of precious metals such as silver and gold, according to people with knowledge of the matter. 

At least 10 banks, including Barclays Plc, JPMorgan Chase & Co., and Deutsche Bank AG are being probed by the Justice Department’s antitrust division, said one the people, who asked not to be named because the matter is confidential. 

The metals investigation, which is in the early stages, broadens the Justice Department’s ongoing scrutiny of banks over manipulation of financial benchmarks. Prosecutors are conducting criminal investigations into the alleged rigging of interbank lending rates and currency markets. Bloomberg."

Who Is Manipulating The Gold Market And Why?

  "Gold is under pressure today and sliding from $1,300 level reached last week towards $1,250. Good day to check on Gold fundamentals with Chris Martenson and Gold manipulation with Chris Powell from GATA. The key to the Bull market is price action with higher lows and higher highs ... Gold is making it so far from last December. How long the manipulation by Central Banks can take its place and distort all markets and Gold primarily? China can be the answer and Jim Rickards even goes as far as suggesting that China is benefiting from this arranged manipulation accumulating all available Gold now. I do not know whether China participate in this manipulation with FED and other Central Banks, but it is definitely buying all the dips so far! Read more."

Alaska - NOVAGOLD Marks 2014 by Reaching Important Milestones in Advancing Permitting of Donlin Gold.

Frank Holmes: China is Effectively Consuming all of the World’s New Mined Gold Supply.

TNR Gold: Shotgun Gold Project in Alaska Presentation.

 "Never fight Central Banks - they have unlimited resources and can print all the money they want until the total breakdown in the system. The war on Deflation is on and ECB has unleashed its own QE with 1 Trillion Euro to be printed for a start. I would not bet on the end of the world, but would do definitely on Inflation. The desire to destroy the FIAT currencies by Central banks is almost unstoppable. Gold is surging in all currencies now and we are entering the new stage, when All FIAT currencies will depreciate against Gold. Nobody was interested in Gold projects with Gold sliding last few years, now it is time to look at the best ones, providing the scale for the new significant discoveries. Read more."

Alaska - NOVAGOLD Marks 2014 by Reaching Important Milestones in Advancing Permitting of Donlin Gold.

Kitco:

China is Effectively Consuming all of the World’s New Mined Gold Supply.

Strengths

• The Shanghai Gold Exchange in January, China is effectively consuming all of the world’s new mined supply.
• In 2014 governments added 477.2 metric tonnes to their reserves, the second-biggest increase in 50 years and 17 percent more than the previous year. Furthermore, central banks have added to gold reserves for the past five years, representing a reversal from two decades of selling. For investors considering adding bullion to their portfolio, gold just triggered this long-term buy signal (only the fourth one to show up in the past 10 years as illustrated by the technical chart shown below). The prior signals have come in 2005, 2007 and 2009, and each time gold rallied thereafter.

Weaknesses

• Gold traders are bearish for the first time in three months on concerns about a stronger dollar and weakening demand from China’s slowing economy.
• Two people remained missing after Mexican police freed 10 others who were kidnapped last Friday. The incident happened in the same southern region where the disappearance and murder of 43 students in September ignited protests throughout the country. One of the people missing is a worker from Torex Gold Resources. B2Gold Corp announced the overnight shooting death on Wednesday of two security guards at the Masbate Gold Mine operating in the Philippines.
• Greece’s new left-wing government announced it will legally oppose a Canadian-run gold mine in northern Greece belonging to Eldorado Gold Corp. on the grounds of worker protections.

Opportunities

• The merger and acquisition (M&A) space seems to be heating up in the gold mining industry. Tahoe Resources announced on Monday it will acquire Rio Alto Mining for $1.1 billion. Mark Bristow, CEO of Randgold Resources, said the company has been “flat-out besieged with offers to buy assets.” Acacia Mining said it’s looking to do a transformational deal this year. Lastly, AngloGold Ashanti’s CEO said he is looking to sell assets or form joint ventures to reduce debt.
• There is growing consensus in the market that an unspoken currency war has broken out. This is a result of many countries facing zero interest rates and binding fiscal constraints. With such constraints, the only policy tool at their disposal to stimulate growth is targeting a weaker exchange rate. While a weak currency might provide a short-term boost to the countries engaging in currency devaluation, the fact that so many countries are concurrently engaging in these tactics will likely mean we may end up with higher foreign-exchange volatility. In such a scenario, gold is increasingly looked upon as the currency of choice.

• U.S. retail sales tumbled 0.8 percent in January despite the “great” jobs report and sharply lower gasoline prices. Furthermore, U.S. corporate profits and sales are crumbling with companies in sectors such as technology, telecommunications, consumer discretionary and staples all seeing sharp earnings per share (EPS) slowdowns as a result of the strong dollar. Lastly, Credit Suisse recommended underweighting U.S. equities as they have slipped on both economic and earnings-momentum scorecards. A weakening of the U.S. market would provide a catalyst for gold.

Threats

• In its 2015 outlook report, JPMorgan Chase said that a strengthening U.S. dollar, weaker energy prices and low inflation will dampen gold demand.
• President Zuma of South Africa announced in his State of the Nation address that foreign nationals will be barred from owning land in the country, only allowing them to enter into long-term lease contracts. Furthermore, last month Zuma referred the Mineral and Petroleum Resources Development Act Amendment Bill back to parliament for reconsideration.
• South Africa’s mining industry remains a highly complex space where aligning competing interests has proved difficult. Mining companies, labor and government seem to have very different opinions on how things should be done, leading to instability. Justin Froneman, director of equity research at Credit Suisse, said that international investors want active leadership at both the corporate and country level in order to reduce uncertainty.

Frank Holmes
CEO and Chief Investment Officer
U.S. Global Investors"

Alan Greenspan - Gold to Rise Measurably... Fed Can't Exit without Causing an "Event"

Brien Lundin shares his private conversations with former Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan. Brien also shares some of his top picks in the resource sector. 

Alan Greenspan: Gold Is The Premier Currency And The Dollar Can't Match It.

Peak Gold: 10 Remarkable Gold and Silver Trends Going Into 2015.

Lithium Catalyst: Tesla To Offer Batteries To Consumers For Home Energy Storage.

  Elon Musk is going for disruption of another Trillion dollar industry. Now we have few such Trillion dollar industries investing in Lithium battery technology: Mobile Devices, Electric Cars and Utility Energy Storage. We have another catalyst for lithium materials production. With cost of Lithium below 2% of the final cost for lithium battery, security of supply chain becomes the most important. Our strategic partner Ganfeng Lithium is building the vertically integrated lithium business with International Lithium developing the potential supply of lithium.

"It was just a couple of sentences during Wednesday's 2014 earnings call by Tesla Motors executives. But in it, CEO Elon Musk apparently revealed a new line of business for the company: selling or leasing lithium-ion battery packs for home energy storage. Musk said:"We’re going to unveil the Tesla home battery [indiscernible] consumer battery that will be for use in and [sic] people’s houses or businesses, fairly soon. We have the design done and it should start going into production probably about six months or so. We probably got a date to have sort of product unveiling, it’s probably in the next month or two. It’s really great. I’m really excited about it." It remains unclear whether the "we" in Musk's statement refers to Tesla Motors, or to Solar City, but the Tesla brand might give added cachet to lithium-ion batteries offered to homeowners who already have solar panels installed."

International Lithium Corp. and Ganfeng Lithium Commence Work Programs on the Avalonia and Mariana Lithium Projects.

Energy Storage - Building a Better Lithium Battery.

  

  Lithium technology has already disrupted the auto-market with Tesla Motors solidly ahead of all the competition. Gigafactory will bring more rapid advance with the mass volume production. Competition is already hitting up and China takes very bold actions to claim its share in these developments with state-level financial support. Electric Cars is the strategic industry in China and at the forefront of "The War on Pollution". If China can repeat the Solar story with Chinese companies producing cheap, but reliable lithium batteries for mass market in EVs and Utility Storage, we will have the mass market in electric cars very soon. 

The Lithium Battery War: America's Team In The Battle To Own The Future.

  "Apple's Titan project, reported by WSJ now, to build Electric iCar brings new attention to our EV industry. Electric cars are considered the strategic industry in China already and lithium battery technology development is the key to the success of electric cars. Tesla Motors demonstrates this technology in action. I do hope that we will all win in this war - new cheaper and better lithium batteries will bring us the mass market in electric cars. It is not all about oil, it is about the air we and our kinds breathe. The stakes are very high in this lithium race. Now you can get a glimpse into the technological race behind the labs' doors all around the world. Watch the videos."

Boston-Power Aims to Rival Tesla With Gigawatt Lithium Battery Factories.

  

  "Eric Wesoff reports on very interesting development in China. Boston Power is building its own Megafactory to produce lithium batteries and even the super cheap urban EV for ... $8,000. It will be the game changer for the booming market for EVs in China, where EV sales are up 320% last year. We have discussed LG Chem Megafactory before and now you can appreciate more recent move of our strategic partner Ganfeng Lithium. China is building very fast its new strategic industry - electric cars. International Lithium is the part of the vertically integrated Lithium business with Ganfeng Lithium in China. Read more."

International Lithium Partner China's Jiangxi Ganfeng Lithium Signs MOU With Boston-Power Inc.

  "Our strategic partner Ganfeng Lithium continues to build vertically integrated Lithium business in China. Now it is gaining access to the latest lithium batteries technology. International Lithium is the part of this international integration in order to secure the supply of lithium. Read more."

Rick Rule & Richard Maybury On Macroeconomics And Geopolitics.

  

 One can argue that junior miners are holding the best value now in years … those of them which will not go bankrupt. Assets are there, safely in the ground, but valuations are gone with investors running to the hills. Let's find out Rick Rule views on the commodities cycles and why "Greece is Non event", while Ukraine could be the very serious one. Argentina could be the one country benefiting from all these trends. China's hunger for resources will drive this trend with announced 250 Billion investment in Latin America.

Los Azules Copper: "Argentina's Mining Landscape Improving, Cerro Morro A Go – Yamana CEO."

 More and more good news are coming from Argentina these days. Country will face elections this year and smart money are already positioning themselves in the best undervalued projects. Nothing should be taken as an investment advise on this blog, please always do your own DD and read my full disclosure. 

  TNR Gold is very fortunate to have McEwen Mining as its partner at the world-class Los Azules Copper project. With lower copper prices and perception of the investment risk in Argentina all valuations were driven into the ground. The return to the mean could be potentially dramatic as well. Gold Corp will put its new mine into production in Argentina this month, Yamana is moving forward with Cerro Morro and China is solidly on the track to secure supply of commodities from Latin America. I do not know when, but Los Azules Copper will be back on the radar screens of the investors one day and its fundamentals will speak for themselves.

  Now you can more appreciate the step by step approach in the development of Mariana Lihium by our J/V with top Lithium producer from China - Ganfeng Lithium. Please stay tuned for the update on our next phase development programmes. You can check more information on the links provided below and in our latest presentations on this blog. Please always consult you financial adviser before making any financial decisions, all latest financial information for TNR Gold and International Lithium can be found in the SEDAR filings and websites of the companies.

Commodities: China To Boost Investment In Latin America To $250 Billion Within Decade.

Los Azules Copper: Canada's Goldcorp To Inaugurate Argentine Gold, Silver Mine In February.

TNR Gold: Los Azules Copper And M&A in Argentina - First Quantum Minerals to Acquire Lumina Copper For $470 Million.

 "My expectations have not let me down this time. Lumina Copper is gone for 470 million. Proud people of Argentina can be expecting now the re-rating of risk and increased valuations for other mining projects respectively. My Team at TNR Gold and I will continue to write our story about Los Azules Copper M&A and Mariana Lithium project for our International Lithium.

  Los Azules Copper is the next prized asset to be talked about in the industry from today. Read more."

TNR Gold Receives Royalty From McEwen Mining On "One Of The Largest Undeveloped Copper Projects".

Please read our full legal disclaimer in our presentation and on our website: http://www.tnrgoldcorp.com/

International Lithium Corp. Update on Avalonia (Ireland) and Mariana (Argentina) Lithium Projects.