One of the country's leading drug policy reformers visited Oregon Tuesday to make a pitch for legalizing pot, calling the recreational marijuana initiative headed to the November ballot "the new gold standard" of marijuana reform efforts. Ethan …

Gold carbene model: The Au=C double bond in the gold carbene compound is the bond between the large golden atom in the middle and the slightly greenish atom below. The position of the atoms was derived from an x-ray crystal structure analysis. Credit: …

Gold mining is not new to these areas of West Africa and in fact, stretches back over a millennium. A series of West African empires thrived from the ninth to 15th centuries because they controlled the trans-Saharan trade with gold and slaves flowing …

Royal Gold (NASDAQ: RGLD ) has outperformed other royalty and streaming precious metals companies such as Silver Wheaton (NYSE: SLW ) this year. Besides the recent recovery of the price of gold, what's driving the company's stock so high?

(Kitco News) – India's new government is set to unveil its first budget and anticipation is high that the budget will include policies geared to more economic growth and perhaps lower restrictions on gold imports. Prime Minister Narenda Modi's …

(Kitco News) – Chart-based buying and some safe-haven demand are boosting gold prices in early U.S. trading Wednesday. And the big economic data point of the week is at hand. August Comex gold was last up $9.90 at $1,326.40 an ounce. Spot gold was …

The GDXJ, Joe tells me, is an ETF whose objective is to replicate the performance of the Market Vector's Junior Gold Miner's Index. The Index is composed of junior mining companies whose flagship assets derive their value from precious metals (86% gold …

LOS ANGELES (MarketWatch) — Gold on Wednesday rebounded from a trio of downbeat sessions, as investors dipped into the safe haven ahead of the closely watched U.S. Federal Reserve minutes. At last check, gold for August delivery (CNS:GCQ4) was …

This scheme offers the highest per gram rate which is 75 per cent of gold value with an initial rate of interest of 18 per cent per annum, a company press release said here. Under the scheme, customers can avail the loan instantly without any …