Money & Markets
Financing by the Crowd
September 2012 by Mark E. Battersby
While a great many questions remain unanswered, there is little doubt that a new financing option for small-scale mining operations, “crowdfunding,” is growing as a viable and legitimate funding source.Mining Stock Quotes and Mineral & Metal Prices
Melman on Gold & Silver
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In an effort to resolve the controversy over whether certain expenditures made by a mining operation or mining-related business are currently deductible as repair expenses...the Internal Revenue Service has finally released new regulations.
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