He said the company is focused on Nevada, where its Cortez and Goldstrike properties produced 2.3 million
ounces of gold last year — about half of its production.
Not exact matches
At
last check, spot
gold was barely changed at $ 1,172.65 an
ounce, while
gold futures for August delivery was up 0.05 % to $ 1,172.40 an
ounce as
of 12:09 p.m. ET today.
When
gold futures hit an all time high
of $ 1,913 an
ounce last Tuesday, it seemed our modern civilization was no different from the ancients in its love affair.
Silver futures settled
last Friday in New York at 16.26 an
ounce while currently trading at 16.36 up about $ 0.10 for the trading week reacting neutral off
of the monthly unemployment number which was released this morning stating that we added 103,000 jobs which were very disappointing sending
gold prices higher, however having very little impact on silver.
The price
of gold is still up $ 80 an
ounce compared to this time
last year.
There were about 80 million
ounces of gold mined on the entire planet
last year.
For then the world might understand why even at its recent price above $ 1,300 per
ounce gold has not come close to keeping up with the inflation, the currency debasement,
of the
last few decades, why
gold has not fulfilled its function
of hedging against inflation.
To put that deposit in perspective, 3,000
ounces of gold represents 1.4 per cent
of the 209,000
ounces of gold Goldcorp produced from its Red Lake mines complex in 2017, and an even smaller 0.12 per cent
of its estimated total
gold production
last year
of 2.6 million
ounces.
Gold futures traded on the Comex division
of the New York Mercantile Exchange settled at $ 1,305.10 a troy
ounce on Tuesday, having declined 3.5 % over the
last two weeks.
Mine
lasted through three kids, hundreds
of ounces of liquid
gold, and still works.
Over the
last ten years,
gold has soared from less than $ 400 per
ounce to a peak
of about $ 1900 per
ounce.
This only means that 100
ounces of gold you purchased
last year for an amount
of $ 124,770 will make you $ 57,750 if you sold this a year later.
For example, after reaching a high
of nearly $ 1,900 an
ounce during the foreign debt crisis back in 2011, the price
of gold began to slide and by the end
of last year had slipped below $ 1,100 an
ounce, a decline
of more than 40 %.
Moreover, its total cash costs were $ 470 per
gold ounce (net
of byproduct silver, copper, lead and zinc credits) versus $ 646
last year.
Last year, the company produced 1.5 m
ounces and was in the top 10
of gold producers.
As per the market trends, worth
of gold increased to USD 1252 per
ounce, as compared to USD 1248
last week.
Bitcoin had been trading at record highs
last month in expectation
of the announcement, at one stage closing on $ 1,300 per coin, and surpassing even the per - spot price for an
ounce of gold - truly justifying bitcoin's moniker «digital
gold» for the second time in its history.
During the
last run up and subsequent collapse
of gold / silver «prices», during the 22 % mortgage rate fiasco
of 1981 -» 82, I bought $ 15,000 worth
of silver bullion as it escalated in price from a start point
of about $ 5.60 per
ounce to $ 52.00, before crashing back to $ 6.00 within a few days
of hitting $ 52.00.