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Thursday, May 7: Today in Gold and Silver

NEW YORK (TheStreet) — [NOTE: Sorry about no column on Wednesday, as I was rather ill on Tuesday.  Ed] In the overall, the gold price activity on Wednesday was pretty much the same as it was on Monday and Tuesday.  The price rallies that began twenty minutes before the COMEX open got hammered withing minutes, as “da boyz” spun their algorithms.  And, like Monday and Tuesday, the price got sold

Silver Standard Receives Final Cash Payment for the Sale of the San Agustin Project

[PR Newswire] – VANCOUVER, May 5, 2015 /PRNewswire/ – Silver Standard Resources Inc. (SSRI) (SSO.TO) (“Silver Standard”) has received the final cash payment in the amount of $20 million from the sale of the San Agustin project in Durango, Mexico (“San Agustin”) to Argonaut Gold Inc., which was completed in December 2013. As part of the consideration, Silver Standard retains a 2% net smelter return royalty on sulphide ore produced

Tuesday, May 5: Today in Gold and Silver

NEW YORK (TheStreet) — NOTE:  There were some serious production issues with my Saturday column—and the last of them weren’t dealt with until Monday evening.  Large chunks of Part 1 just weren’t there, but the rest of the column was fine.  If you’d like to read that part of my Saturday column, the link to that section is here. The gold price rallied about five bucks or so in morning

Saturday, May 2: Today in Gold and Silver

NEW YORK (TheStreet) — Gold had a slight negative bias all through Far East and early London trading on their Friday.  Someone tapped on the price at 1 p.m. in London, which was 20 minutes before the Comex open—and the selloff continued minutes after the open.  The low tick came shortly after the 9:30 a.m. open of the equity markets—and then chopped sideways into the 1:30 p.m. Comex close before