$9 BILLION MESSAGE FOR GOLD AND SILVER $GLD $SLV $FCX $GDX $GDXJ $PAAS $HL $CDE $EGO $KGC

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The momentum crowd has been running up gold and silver based on superficial beliefs about QE3. This group of investors is not known for deep study or paying heed to rigorous analysis. Now a major player in the metals business is sending a signal loud and clear that gold and silver prices are not about to skyrocket.

Freeport-McMoRan Copper and Gold Inc. FCX  is spending $9 billion not to buy another metal company, but to diversify into energy.

Proven reserves of Freeport include 33.9 million ounces of gold, 330.3 million ounces of silver, 119.7 billion pounds of copper, 3.42 billion pounds of molybdenum, and 0.86 billion pounds of cobalt. It stands to reason that if Freeport believed that QE will cause gold and silver prices to skyrocket, it would have made acquisitions of gold and silver miners. Instead, Freeport is buying Plains Exploration & Production  PXP  for about $6.9 billion and McMoRan Exploration for about $2.1 billion.

It is worth examining market caps of some precious-metal miners to see what Freeport could have bought in the precious metals space for nine billion dollars. Here are a few examples:

Pan American Silver with a market cap of $2.75 billion.

Coeur d’Alene with a market cap of 1.99 billion.

Hecla Mining with a market cap of $1.60 billion.

Kinross Gold with a market cap of $10.84 billion.

Eldorado Gold with a market cap of $9.52 billion.

In the meantime, the SPDR Gold Trust ETF  GLD  and the iShares Silver Trust ETF  SLV  fell below technical supports. Market Vectors ETF Trust Market Vectors Gold Miners EFT  GDX  and Market Vectors Junior Gold Miners ETF  GDXJ  also lost ground…Read more at MarketWatch

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