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By Rhod Mackenzie
Mali and Russia have signed a memorandum of understanding for the construction of the largest gold processing plant in West Africa with a capacity of 200 tons per year in the capital of Mali, said Minister of Economy and Finance Alousseni Sanou.
The memorandum is valid for four...
By Rhod Mackenzie
Today at the start of the working week, the price of gold reached a six-month high.Reuters reports, the spot price for an ounce of gold rose by 0.4% on November 27th, hitting $2,009.69.
This is due to the devaluation of the US dollar. Additionally, there is a strong likelihood t...
By Rhod Mackenzie
Gold production in Russia is likely to peak at 600 tonnes by 2030, before beginning to decline. This was reported by the newspaper Vedomosti, which refers to a study by the Federal State Budgetary Institution TsNIGRI.
600 tonnes is the base scenario, whereas production is expec...
By Rhod Mackenzie
The Foreign Affairs committee of the US congress has backed the transfer of the Russian assets that are currently frozen abroad to the Ukraine, on the condition that "if necessary, the funds will be transferred to the US government." However, this idea lacks support within the Eu...
By Rhod Mackenzie
Brent crude prices have rebounded to $90 per barrel, while WTI has soared over $86 per barrel due to the alarming deterioration of the Middle East situation, an area that produces almost a third of the world's oil.
Gold predictably rose on fear of risk. The yellow metal, whose...
By Rhod Mackenzie
For most of the last decade, the price of gold has been driven by the cost of money (interest rates): the lower the base rate fell, the higher the gold price went, and vice versa. Most analysts say that gold is the "anti-dollar", i.e. the asset that investors who do not trust fia...
