Posts Tagged ‘gold’

Who are the Gold Bugs?

September 8, 2009Jon Brooks 2 Comments »

The price of gold rushed past $1000 per ounce today, sending it within glittering distance of last year’s record high before profit-taking ate into gains. But the breach of the psychological $1000 barrier has put a sparkle into the eyes of those who have been accumulating the precious metal, and has them looking for more [...]

read More »

Gold fever!

August 24, 2009Jon Brooks 1 Comment »

It’s official. Cabin fever has officially set in. My mind is increasingly wrapped up in thoughts of gold, of mountain streams, rocky canyons and tricky descents into the same. At the Salem Gold Show this weekend one of the vendors dropped 7.5 ozt of fine gold on the floor, and while I felt terrible for [...]

read More »