Much has been made recently about the “negative gold lease rates” derived from the London Bullion Market Association (LBMA) statistical gold and silver data. For example, there was coverage here and here late last week claiming that banks are having … Read More →

The Alfred Little website published its first short report about an hour after the market opened on September 13, 2011, at which point Silvercorp’s (NYSE/TSX: SVM) share price promptly fell off a cliff. So realistically it would have been difficult … Read More →

The Silvercorp shorts are literally the blind leading the blind when it comes to anything like analytical skills, industry knowledge, basic accounting aptitude, sampling technique or … the list goes on and on. In the past day, the head blind … Read More →

There is a new boiler room operation in town and it doesn’t involve slick-haired Wall Street scumbags with mafia connections but rather anonymous hedge fund managers and shady characters with no permanent homes or the guts to identify themselves. With … Read More →

After a brief hiatus, Sino-Forest (TSX: TRE; Pink Sheets: SNOFF) has once again taken the main stage on the fraud circuit after a temporary trading halt by the Ontario Securities Commission (OSC) on Friday August 26 followed by a not-so-temporary extension at … Read More →

Sino-Forest (TSX: TRE; Pink Sheets: SNOFF) is the biggest Chinese stock fraud of all time according to Carson Block of Muddy Waters LLC as detailed in a 39 page “research” report published on June 2, 2011 and followed by a bullet … Read More →

Jonathan Lebed is quite the character. Just take a look at this extended piece by Michael Lewis written back in 2001 detailing the then 15 year old “Stock Manipulator” and “SEC Nemesis”. According to Lebed’s website, “he is the most … Read More →

Articles from Motley Fool frequently cross our desk, and when they have something to do with mining we’re usually left speechless by the author’s lack of understanding. A recent article by Seth Jayson featuring Yamana Gold (NYSE: AUY; TSX: YRI) … Read More →

This afternoon we were made aware of a “Special Report” from the wonderful people over at Agora Financial about King Alexander I’s hidden gold mine in Serbia. For an amusing time (though it never wants to end), you’re invited to … Read More →

Run! Don’t walk! Run away from the advice of those who suggest drill results can be evaluated by simply “cubing” a drill intercept in order to arrive at a rough estimate of deposit size. Cubing a hole involves taking a … Read More →