In the Ebola epicenter, a gold-mining town reacts with fear, disbelief and grit

Scientists don’t know why this volcano is spewing out gold

Most volcanoes spit out molten fire, ash and fear — but there is at least one that belches out actual goldand it does this every single day. There’s gold in that volcano! Mount Erebus is not the most thrilling name for a gold-spitting volcano, but this unassuming topographical feature is one of the most mysterious...

Caracas in Ruins: Up to 100,000 Feared Dead As Massive Earthquakes Rock Venezuela

Caracas in Ruins: Up to 100,000 Feared Dead As Massive Earthquakes Rock Venezuela

Adam Hamilton: Gold Seasonal Launchpad

Originally posted by Adam Hamilton at Zeal LLC: Gold’s brutal plummeting in June on Fed-rate-hike fears made for its worst month in nearly 18 years. All that carnage fueled heavy capitulation selling, forcing herd sentiment back to very-bearish and slamming gold into deep oversoldness. But such an irrational wildly-overdone selloff in gold’s seasonally-weakest month is []

Video shows panic in immediate aftermath of double earthquake in Venezuela's capital Caracas

Footage showed panic in the streets of Caracas as back-to-back earthquakes struck the Venezuelan capital. A rare double earthquake ravaged Venezuela on Wednesday, killing at least 920 and injuring another 3,360, authorities said. Many more are feared dead. Subscribe: http://smarturl.it/AssociatedPress Read more: https://apnews.com​ This video may be available for archive licensing via https://newsroom.ap.org/home

‘Paralysed by fear’: Venezuelans tell of escape and loss after huge earthquakes

People in Caracas and coastal towns describe powerful quakes that collapsed buildings and killed at least 164As a double whammy of powerful earthquakes rattled Venezuela’s northern coast on Wednesday, residents of the capital, Caracas, scrambled out on to the streets from shuddering, fractured buildings.“It was horrible. I felt like the house was moving to a different rhythm to the earth. I had to carry my mum out. She was paralysed by fear,” said 18-year-old Sebastian Rodríguez, whose family runs a shop in Centro Plaza, a brutalist commercial centre in the affluent neighbourhood of Los Palos Grandes. Continue reading...