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We write this article from the floor of the World's Fair of Money in Denver, where attendance has been overall tepid from a retail traffic point of view. However, despite a sluggish start the wholesale dealer to dealer business has picked up and there are certainly coins being traded. Multiple large wholesale dealers told us that their tables had been very busy for the past two days. It is expected that larger collector traffic will turn up on the Thursday and Friday of the show as is typical. In conjunction with the ANA World's Fair of Money the United States [...]

Dolly Varden Silver (TSX.V: DV | U.S.: DOLLF)(the Company or Dolly Varden) is pleased to announce results from the second four holes of the 2017 diamond drilling program on the Dolly Varden Silver Project in the Golden Triangle of northwestern British Columbia. Hole DV17-040 Lower Zone consisted of a core length of 12.55m (9.89m true thickness) grading Ag 514.3g/t, Pb 0.09% and Zn 0.04% for a silver-equivalent of 520.2g/t. Within this Lower Zone interval is 7.00m (5.52m true thickness) grading Ag 757.4g/t, Pb 0.12% and Zn 0.05% for a silver-equivalent of 765.1g/t. Hole DV17-042 Lower Zone consisted of a core [...]

Gold climbs amid rising risk onUS and North Korea Trump threatened North Korea with 'fire and fury like the world has never seen' North Korea says prepared to strike the US territory of Guam North Korea said US exercise 'proves that the U.S. imperialists are nuclear war maniacs' Heated rhetoric likely to support gold for rest of the week Russia and China poised to take advantage Situation adds to uncertainty in an already uncertain world Gold provides certainty as US and North Korea go head-to-head Just a few months ago President Trump offered an olive branch of sorts to North [...]

(Denver, Colorado) August 1, 2017 Officers of the Professional Numismatists Guild (www.PNGdealers.org) have selected Barry Stuppler to be the organization's President for the 2017 2019 term. Stuppler was selected during the PNG Board of Directors meeting in Denver, Colorado on July 30, 2017. He is President of Stuppler & Company, Inc. in Woodland Hills, California as well as President of the California Coin and Bullion Merchants Association and Chairman of the Gold and Silver Political Action Committee. He also is a former President of the American Numismatic Association (ANA). One of the first projects I want to launch during my [...]

Santacruz Silver Mining (TSX.V:SCZ)(Santacruz)andMarlin Gold Mining Ltd.(TSX.V:MLN)(Marlin) are pleased to announce that they have entered into a definitive agreement (the Gavilanes Agreement) pursuant to which Marlin, through its wholly-owned subsidiary, will acquire 100% of Santacruz's interest in the Gavilanes Project inDurango, Mexico(the Gavilanes Transaction), for cash consideration ofUS$3.5 million, plus applicable value added taxes (VAT). Santacruz has also agreed to settle the outstanding balance (the Gavilanes Outstanding Balance) owing on certain of the claims included in the Gavilanes Project by making a cash payment ofUS$500,000and issuing 1,250,000 of common shares of Santacruz to the property vendor (the Payment Shares), plus [...]

Silver Mining Production Plummets 27% At Top Four Silver Miners by SRSRocco Report In an interesting change of events, production at four of the top primary silver miners plummeted during the second quarter of 2017. This goes well beyond normal fluctuations in mining companies production figures during different quarterly reporting periods. The company with the least percentage decline in silver production still suffered a 20% reduction of mine supply in the second quarter. According to recently released company data, silver production declined between 20-34% from these four primary silver miners during the second quarter. The company that suffered the biggest [...]

Numismatic Guaranty Corporation (NGC) has certified an extremely unusual "mule" error of the 2017 $2,500 Canadian In the Eyes of the Timber Wolf 1 Kilo Gold Coin. A mule is an error in which... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

(Denver, Colorado) July 31, 2017 The Professional Numismatists Guild (www.PNGdealers.org) presented its 2017 PNG Lifetime Achievement Award to prominent and influential hobby leader Beth Deisher. The award was announced during the PNG's annual banquet held this year in Denver, Colorado on July 31, 2017. Deisher is the Anti-Counterfeiting Task Force Director of the Industry Council for Tangible Assets (www.ictaonline.org). She was the award-winning Editor of Coin World for 27 years until her retirement in 2012. Over the years Deisher also has conducted workshops and classes on the problems of counterfeit coins produced in China. These are the other 2017 awards [...]

Gold consolidates on 2.5% gain in July as the dollar has fifth monthly decline Trump administration and vicious civil war politics casting shadow overAmerica and impacting dollar All eyes on non farm payrolls today for further signs of weakness in U.S. economy Gold recovers from 1.7% decline in June as dollar falls Gold outperforms stocks and benchmark S&P 500 YTD Gold gains 10.8% versus 10.6% gain for S&P led by frothy tech sector (see performance table) Gold outperforms stocks globally Euro Stoxx 50 up 5.7% ytd, FTSE up 4.8% andNikkei up 4.5% Gold's technicals increasingly positive; now tradingabove its 50-day [...]

AbraPlata Resource (AbraPlata or the Company) (TSX-V: ABRA; OTCQB: ABBRF; Frankfurt: 1AH) is pleased to announce that it has engaged Roscoe Postle Associates (RPA) of Toronto, Canada and GR Engineering Services Limited (GRES) of Perth, Australia to undertake a Preliminary Economic Assessment (PEA) of the Diablillos Ag-Au project located in southern Salta Province in northwestern Argentina. Diablillos Project The Diablillos property covers an area of some 79km2 and hosts epithermal precious metal mineralization in nine mineral occurrences. One of these, the Oculto Deposit, contains all the Indicated Resources known from the property which, as recently estimated by RPA, amounts to [...]