Gold has outperformed most major asset classes this year including all major US stock indexes to be up by more than 15 per cent, according to the World Gold Council.
Despite the seemingly bullish environment for risk assets in May — global stocks collectively rose by 6 per cent — the gold price edged higher while the holdings of gold-backed ETFs hit record highs.
“As investors look to hedge the economic risks of ballooning budget deficits and high valuations for both stocks and bonds, collective holdings of gold ETFs have now surpassed Germany’s official gold reserves and exceed the official gold reserves of every country except for the US,” it said.
“This also highlights the increasing acceptance of gold ETFs among investors as a means to gain exposure to gold.”
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Many of the positive gold demand drivers remain in place, says the World Gold Council.
That includes low interest rates, lingering uncertainty around the economic and social impact of COVID-19 (including a second wave of infections), escalating tensions between the US and China, and challenges in labour markets “not seen in generations”.
Furthermore, the race-related civil unrest that has recently emerged in the US, will create “additional uncertainty” in markets, the council says.
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The structures that host the high-grade Cosmopolitan mine, which produced 360,000oz at 15 grams pet tonne (g/t) gold in the early 1900s, are now thought to extend for ~2km north and south of the mine.
This highlights the ‘camp scale’ potential of the unloved project, Metalicity says, which had already established an exploration target of between 294,000oz and 967,000oz at Kookynie.
The latest round of drilling at Saturn’s flagship~780,000/oz Apollo Hill project has widened the mineralised corridor to 600m and extended the higher-grade hanging wall mineralisation.
Hits included 8m at 5.12g/t gold from 215m and 4m at 15.57g/t from 100m, including 2m at 31g/t from 100m.
Saturn’s plan is to increase the current resource with an update due out later this year.
Hole one of maiden drilling at the Mt Stirling gold camp in WA has hit 274m of quartz‐carbonate veining containing pyrite and ended in mineralisation, Torian (ASX:TNR) says.
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