Gold prices - continue to slip tomorrow?

In my opinion gold prices are going to continue to slide as CD rates increase.

There really has not been much of a reason to move out of PM's and into bank deposits since '08, if rates continue to rise that all changes.

Same reason Wall Street is terrified of rising rates right now

What miner out of curiosity, a junior or a major?

I don't really have a strong opinion on what gold will do in 2017, but overall, gold prices actually seem surprisingly normal right now. I've taken the position for about 8 years that gold prices were way too high based on post-1971 CPI ratios, and were bound to fall below $1,000/oz. However, maybe with consumer price inflation picking up, it doesn't necessarily have to break below $1,000. If gold prices tumble in 2017, then it might become a decent hedge investment in 2018.

I'm up slightly on a bear etf that I want out of bad.

Which is why I plan on getting out.

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How can gold prices fall past $1000 when it costs about that to mine the stuff

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Gold is different than other commodities (cement, zinc or steel, for examples) because Gold is not just used to make products (electronics, dental, industrial uses, etc.), it is held long term as an investment. The production cost is less influential on the market price of gold because there's a huge worldwide historical investment pool of gold that was produced over the past centuries (and even millennia) with this pool's total production costs averaged down.

The historical pool is "competing" to investors with today's current gold production which prevents higher production costs from influencing gold prices to any great extent.

Another way to understand this is to compare two one ounce gold bars.

One was mined and produced in (say) 1950-
Labor was much cheaper
Little to no environmental costs
Overhead was cheaper
The other bar was mined and produced in 2016 with your correctly noted higher associated production costs.

Which one ounce gold bar is worth more?
The answer is obviously they are worth exactly the same amount.

This immunity to production costs is part of what makes Gold (and Platinum, Silver, etc.) different than any other commodity. It's also a reason why it was tempting to base currencies on an exchange rate with gold or silver.

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How can gold prices fall past $1000

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How was gold 300 an ounce in 1998?

figure it out.