suda123
1) That gold is too deep under the seafloor to be mined for the foreseeable future. VERY expensive to mine it.
2) 470 tonnes, were that to be true (and we'll have to wait and see) is not that much compared to the 180,000 tonnes or so in stock worldwide. Remember, with gold, what is important is the stock:flow ratio, which is higher for gold than any other commodity. 470 tonnes means zip.
3) Most of the gold to be discovered going forward is likely to be other high-cost-of-production gold.
4) Yes, I would guess there is price suppression, but that is NOT proven, and many knowledgeable gold observers & analysts doubt that suppression is a big deal. What is a big deal is the HUGE amount of "paper gold" (futures, options, "allocated gold" (hah!), the GLD, etc.) vs. the amount of physical gold actually available. Some estimates are that some 280 oz of "paper gold" exist for each oz of physical. A lot of people may be disappointed when they cannot get the gold they thought they "owned" via paper gold. *
* If you can't stand in front of your gold, and defend it with an AR-15, they you don't own it.
-- Ann Barnhardt
I'm quoting this for truth.
The price of gold is decided by the market and the mining difficulty. Also, it's true that the price of gold is supposed to plummet as available quantities increase, but since miners get paid less, they might just end up spending more digging than actually earning when selling. They'll quit digging if they don't earn enough. If gold's price rises again at satisfactory levels then the mines will reopen and the price will fall back again and the mines will close again, etc. You can't alter the price just by discovering new mines. The mining difficulty and the market are there to regulate the price.
What I'd be afraid of, in the future, is that mining from asteroids becomes cheap enough so that available gold loses it's rarity. But such thing is not for tomorrow. Space exploration has just restarted, after all.
Also, I agree with OROBTC regarding 4): the inflationary policy behind paper gold is of much higher concern than new gold mines way below the seafloor.
DimensionZ you might want to create your own thread in order to promote your company's stocks.