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Every bull market in gold eventually reaches the point that separates a correction from a reversal. Bullion is standing on that point now.After peaking above $5,600 an ounce early this year, gold fell nearly 30% to a low of $3,960 by midsummer. A drawdown of that size has ended plenty of rallies. It did not end this one. The low landed on a rising trend line that has connected gold's major pullback lows since October 2023, when the precious metal was trading near $1,810. Buyers defended it from the $3,960 mark, driving prices back to $4,697 in August, and the pullback that followed has ...

Gold bull markets tend to move in stages. Producers benefit first as margins expand. Then capital rotates toward developers with defined resources, and finally into early-stage explorers positioned in the right geology at the right moment. But in extended bull markets, the kind driven by structural monetary forces rather than cyclical sentiment, a fourth stage emerges: a reserve replenishment race among the majors themselves. When the largest producers in the world are generating record free cash flow against a backdrop of depleting ore bodies, the exploration corridors they cannot afford ...

Gold bull markets tend to move in stages. Producers benefit first as margins expand. Then capital rotates toward developers with defined resources, and finally into early-stage explorers positioned in the right geology at the right moment. But in extended bull markets, the kind driven by structural monetary forces rather than cyclical sentiment, a fourth stage emerges: a reserve replenishment race among the majors themselves. When the largest producers in the world are generating record free cash flow against a backdrop of depleting ore bodies, the exploration corridors they cannot afford ...