Silver is set for a dramatic move higher, one that will even exceed the gains expected for gold, according to an asset manager for Dolefin, a Swiss investment advisers.
Guinea's parliament adopted a new mining code that more than doubles the share the West African state can take in mining projects to 35% and toughens procedures for acquiring development permits, the government said on Saturday.
Silver, bronze, ebony and plastics are seeing greater use in jewelery as surging gold prices put off price-conscious consumers, jewelery makers at an international trade fair said.
Mines Management Inc., a U.S.-based silver mining company, said Monday its second-quarter loss grew as declining expenses were offset by less valuable derivatives.
Jewelry company Richline International, part of billionaire investor Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway, will buy its fifth small Italian jewelry brand as it plans to expand further in Italy.
The Acer Iconia Tab A501 is all set to hit the market with AT&T's 4G HSPA+ network. The carrier has announced that the 16GB model of the tablet will debut on Sunday, Sept. 18, with a price tag of $330 after a 2-year contract, or at $480 without a contract.
Audi has teamed with Best Buddies International for the 5th Audi Best Buddies Challenge striving to engage more than 1,500 participants and raise $4 million in total donations.
Highbrow trumped Hollywood at the Venice film festival this year, with Russian director Alexander Sokurov's demanding German-language Faust taking top prize and Roman Polanski and George Clooney overlooked.
For one professional commuting to Midtown Manhattan, the warm, crystal-clear blue sky summer day after a vacation dawned like any other, first-day back from vacation. Until 8:46 a.m. EDT.
Silver and gold both fell Friday but the white metal was off proportionately more because unlike gold, which is a pure play store of value, silver has a significant and growing role in various industrial applications.
A U.S. court has approved a proposed $263.4 million settlement by Hecla Mining Co. to resolve a 20-year-old dispute involving the silver mining company's liabilities for an environmental contamination in Idaho's Coeur d'Alene Basin.
Gold mining companies rose Thursday in U.S. trading along with the price of the yellow metal on increased purchases of bullion, an unexpectedly downbeat unemployment report and very little evidence that the domestic economy has much energy.
A man dressed in a Gumby costume attempted to rob a California 7-Eleven.
Canada's Gabriel Resources Ltd. may lower the cyanide levels at a long-delayed Romanian gold mine project as it seeks to secure a key environmental permit, a company official said on Thursday.
Workers at Cerro Verde in Peru launched a two-day pay strike on Wednesday but no effect on output was expected at the mine that produces around 2 percent of the world's copper, union and company representatives said.
Gold fell hard Wednesday when some investors took profits from the yellow metal's recent runup in price and other investors abandoned the yellow metal for stocks.
An Arkansas weatherman is being questioned by police after he was found sleeping in a hot tub next to a naked dead man who detectives say was wearing a dog collar.
Silver prices clawed their way back to near a breakeven point Wednesday after falling early in the day's session by 3.5 percent, a performance that easily outshined gold's movement in early afternoon trading.
Yahoo shares opened up 7 percent Wednesday following the ouster of CEO Carol Bartz, perhaps on speculation the rudderless Internet search engine might be a target.
Actress Gwyneth Paltrow responds to how she inadvertently saved a woman's life on 9/11
A man was found dead in a bathtub in a Little Rock, Ark. home on Monday with a local TV personality and meteorologist Brett Cummins, sparking an ongoing investigation.
Silver mining companies settled mixed Tuesday, while the price of the white metal itself gave up ground to fears that global economic activity may be slowing.
