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The proposed with Western Potash to pay the City of Regina millions for its waste water, took a small step forward Tuesday. 

With a new mine planned to open in 2016 southeast of Regina, the city stands to earn over $225 million over 45 years for its waste water.  

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BY TERRENCE MCEACHERN, LEADER-POST

The City of Regina is prepared to enter into a 45-year, $228-million deal with Western Potash Corp. to supply recycled water to the company’s anticipated mine site near Gray.

On Wednesday, the city’s executive committee recommended the proposal and sent the matter to the June 25 city council meeting for final approval.

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by Marc Davis - BNWnews

“Bigger is better” is a bit of boastful bravado that proud Texans are renowned for proclaiming, often with a genteel southern smile. After all, the ever-industrious citizens of this sprawling, oil-rich southern state like to do things on a grand scale.

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The debt-based monetary system creates an illusion of wealth. It allows for claims on real goods to significantly exceed the actual amount of real goods. You then have a number of people believing they have wealth, since they have claims (pieces of paper or tokens) showing that they have these real assets, whereas, in reality, if everyone was to claim the real goods, there would not be enough to go around.

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Interview With Ted Butler

Ted Butler is one of the better-known silver analysts (and longtime silver bulls) in the world. The founder of Butler Research, a monthly publication focused on precious metals, Butler has been pounding the table on silver since way back when it was trading for $4/ounce.

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By Marc Davis, BNWnews.ca

With potash prices spiking higher in response to surging global foods costs, the world’s most advanced “independent” potash project is in the cross-hairs of an increasing number of deep-pocketed suitors.

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Author: Brian Sylvester

Austerity programmes across Europe, continued debt problems in the US and further political uncertainty all point to a continued uptrend in gold prices, says Brien Lundin. A Gold Report Interview.

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By Michael Brush, MSN Money

Recent dips are giving us another chance to get in on the great gold rush. The factors driving the metal higher -- broken governments and fragile economies -- aren't going away.

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Author: Lawrence Williams

Speaking at GATA's sold-out Gold Rush conference in London, Eric Sprott affirmed his strong views on gold and his even more positive thoughts on silver.

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Edmund Conway

That's right: come Monday morning we will have managed to survive four decades of fiat money – though, given the chaos in markets in recent weeks, it is anyone's guess how much longer it will last.

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By Myra P. Saefong, MarketWatch

SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) — Silver has always been seen as less precious than gold, but it has certainly proved itself worthy of investors’ attention — and demand for it as a hedge against the world’s financial woes is likely to grow.

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Edmond J. Bugos

After launching the Shanghai Gold Exchange in October 2002, the exchange’s principals announced a three-part plan to liberalize trading: 1) establish a deferred delivery service (as physical transactions are settled pretty much the same day); 2) create gold-related investment products in order to promote domestic investment demand and create liquidity; 3) integrate the exchange into international markets – which includes expanding import/export licenses and allowing foreign entities to become members.

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Author: Amanda Cooper (Reuters)

Analysts believe that gold stocks could well take the upper hand after a long period of underperformance in relation to physical bullion as the flow of cheap money from the U.S. slows

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By The Economist

Striking gold is generally considered a slice of good luck. Owning it, however, is a sign that you fear the worst. Some people buy the yellow stuff because they think it looks pretty, to be sure. But the quintessential gold bug is an investor who expects every form of paper wealth to collapse, along with civilisation itself.

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By Marc Davis, www.BNWnews.ca

Though Nevada’s world-famous gold fields have historically yielded over 150 million gold ounces, they are still proving to be geologically fertile hunting grounds for exploration-minded junior mining companies. Two good examples are Auex Ventures and Fronteer Gold.

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By David Galland, Casey Research

While there are many reasons that gold and silver are going to keep moving higher as the fiat currencies trend lower, at our recent Casey Research Summit in Boca Raton, faculty member Mike Maloney pointed out a fact that, while obvious in hindsight, I had never heard mentioned previously.

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Author: Fayen Wong
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London specialist consultancy GFMS reckons Chinese gold imports could exceed 400 tonnes in 2011 with silver, too, expected to exceed domestic supply.

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By William Mbaho, BNWnews.ca

Heightened global demand for vanadium especially from China, is prompting the global steel industry to aggressively seek out new supplies, especially in the U.S. where this 21st century metal is becoming increasingly indispensible. Even U.S. President Obama is championing this metal’s promise for green energy applications.

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Author: Geoff Candy

The yellow metals performance in the face of silver's washout last week was rather impressive and an addition to the factors why UBS expects gold to continue going higher this year.

Gold's performance last week, in the face of a drop of around 30% in the price of silver was rather impressive and, could be an indicator of things to come.

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By Marc Davis, www.BNWnews.ca

The quest to commercialize one of Latin America’s last undeveloped major gold deposits is one major step closer to a prospectively big pay day for its unlikely owner – a small gold explorer named Exeter Resource.

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By Debbie Carlson 
Of Kitco News 

After a sharp drop in prices this week, the outlook is hazy for precious metals price direction, but some analysts believe the metals could see the slide ending next week, at least for gold.

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Author: Lawrence Williams

Some observers think gold is in a bubble, but silver has been rising far faster. Can this momentum be maintained or is now the time to take at least some profits as the price closes on $50.

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Author: Jan Harvey (Reuters)

Silver rose to its strongest since 1980 and Gold hit five week highs on the back of growing unrest in the Middle East

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By Marc Davis, www.BNWnews.ca

Silver promises to become the next big buzzword among investors in 2011 and beyond, according to one of the investment industry’s most prescient and successful experts on precious metals.

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Jason Hamlin


There are some bizarre things going on in the silver market at the moment, reminiscent of the supply shortages and high premiums witnessed in 2008. For starters, silver is currently in both short-term and long-term backwardation, suggesting there is higher demand for silver NOW than in the future.

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The Economist

Rising commodity prices both reflect and threaten the world’s economic recovery.

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Ryan Jordan

Cheap, Industrial Silver is an illusion

From the beginning of the financial crisis in 2008, contrarian investors began murmuring about getting into gold and short term Treasuries. It was almost a mantra: gold and Treasuries… gold and Treasuries. Something missing?

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The Economist

Commodity prices are surging at a very early stage of the cycle

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By Frank Holmes

Wall Street has been calling gold a bubble since 2005 when it hit $500. Some media naysayers remained negative even as they wrote the headlines proclaiming record highs and saw gold rise almost 30 percent in the past 12 months.

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