Readers of these pages will be familiar that in addition to holding its gold bars in a HSBC vault in London, the SPDR Gold Trust (GLD), the world's largest gold-backed ETF, at times also holds some of its gold bars in the vaults of the 'Bank of England' in London.

On March 23 rd it was announced that buyers from "unfriendly countries" would provide rubles in return for Russian gas, instead of the traditional U.S. dollar. Eventually the announcement was extended to oil and other commodities. Will the stringency of such a decree hold? The bet here is that it won't.

With a group of former JP Morgan precious metals traders currently on criminal trial in front of a federal jury in Chicago, accused of engaging in a racketeering conspiracy involving precious metals price manipulation, commodities fraud and trade spoofing, while another group of their colleagues have already pleaded guilty, now

Space mining is an idea that began taking hold at the turn of the century, and 10 years ago, it was passionately discussed. Many argued that space mining could revolutionise the commercial space economy by employing robots and private astronauts to explore and mine near-Earth asteroids (NEAs) for precious metals and even rare earth metals.

Health Money Politics U.S. WND News Center WNDAgency accused of confiscating property and keeping it By Bob Unruh Published August 7, 2021 at 3:38pm The Environmental Protection Agency has been sued for taking over property adjacent to the 2015 Gold King Mine catastrophe in Colorado to stage cleanup equipment and projects, and keeping it, never paying for it or even for renting it.