Richard (Rick) Mills
Mining Expert & Financial Writer
Richard Mills is a mining expert, financial writer, and the owner of Aheadoftheherd.com. He invests in the junior resource/bio-tech sectors and his articles have been published on over 400 websites, including: WallStreetJournal, SafeHaven, MarketOracle, USAToday, NationalPost, Stockhouse, Lewrockwell, Pinnacledigest, UraniumMiner, SeekingAlpha, MontrealGazette, CaseyResearch, 24hgold, VancouverSun, CBSnews, SilverBearCafe, Infomine, HuffingtonPost, Mineweb, 321Gold, Kitco, Gold-Eagle, The Gold/Energy Reports, CalgaryHerald, ResourceInvestor, Mining.com, Forbes, FNArena, Uraniumseek, FinancialSense, Goldseek, Dallasnews, Vantagewire, Resourceclips and the Association of Mining Analysts.
Richard (Rick) Mills Articles
Stagflation is an economic event in which the inflation rate is high, economic growth rate slows, and unemployment remains steadily high.
Inflation, higher interest rates and a strong dollar are bad for gold prices. On the other hand, war, geopolitical stress, bad job reports and stagflation are good for gold. The consensus on gold prices for 2026 is cautiously bullish, with...
A junior resource company’s place in the food chain is to acquire projects, make discoveries and hopefully advance them to the point when a larger mining company takes it over. Discoveries won’t be made if juniors don’t have boots on the...
Gold and silver’s dramatic pullback on Jan. 30 was supposedly predicated on the notion that Trump’s pick to replace Jerome Powell as Fed Chair, Kevin Warsh, is a fiscal hawk who has previously criticized quantitative easing, wants to...
Gold mines have been mining at a higher grade than the reserve grade for much of the last decade. Purposely mining areas of the orebody with the highest-grade material is known as high grading.
The Bloomberg Commodity Index (BCOM) is made up of exchange-traded futures on 22 commodities and is widely mimicked by ETFs and fund managers. On Nov. 28, 2025, the weighting for gold was at 19.4% and silver at 7.1%. On Jan. 8 the BCOM is...
2025 was historic in that gold, silver and copper all rose significantly at the same time — the first time this has happened in 45 years.
The BRICS countries are moving away from the US dollar as the currency that settles international transactions, and gold is an integral part of the new settlement mechanism.
It took just 71 days for the US federal government to add another trillion dollars to the national debt. In August, the debt soared past $37 trillion for the first time. On Oct. 21, it blew past $38 trillion, according to FXStreet.
Gold is a reliable indicator of geopolitical tensions, and one would think that the peace agreement between Israel and Hamas would knock the gold price off its lofty perch. But it didn’t.
