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 | Alan Leishman |
Mineral Specimen Collecting: Silver and Gold  |
| For the last 20 years, the author has been visiting mines, mineral fairs,
and mineral dealers to purchase and self collect minerals from over 40 countries
to date.
One of his guiding inspirations was Peter Bancroft's excellent book Gem
and Crystal Treasures which describes Bancroft's selection of the 100
localities for the worlds best mineral specimens.
This essay will describe some of the background and history of famous localities,
and the minerals found there.
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 | Goldmoney |
 Gold coins: the United Kingdom´s Gold Britannia |
| The United Kingdom´s Gold Britannia has been minted by the British Royal Mint since 1987. It appears in four different weights, ranging from 1/10 to 1-ounce coins. Each of the Britannia´s coin weights have a different nominal value, ranging between £10 and £100. 150,000 of the new edition of the Gold Britannia´s are minted every year, meaning that the coin has a global market share of 1% – making it to one of the world´s most popular bullion coins.Friday, December 4, 2020 |
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 | The Gold Report |
| Canadian Gold Company Closes CA$11.6 Million Financing |
| The firm intends to use the funds on its three past-producing mines in the U.S. Great Basin.
Liberty Gold Corp. (LGD:TSX) recently closed its bought-deal financing, which resulted in about CA$11.6 million being added to the company coffers. Liberty will use the proceeds for working capital and for exploration and development work at its three flagship projects in the western U.S.: Goldstrike in Utah, Black Pine in Idaho and Kinsley inSaturday, October 6, 2018 |
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 | Chris Powell - GATA |
| Fake gold wasn't ours, Royal Canadian Mint says |
| http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/fake-gold-not-ours-mint-says-1.4380...
A gold bar purchased in Ottawa that turned out to contain no gold did not come from the Royal Canadian Mint, the Crown corporation said today.
The mint's statement came the day after CBC News reported that tests showed the 1-ounce gold bar, purchased last month by an Ottawa jeweler from a Royal Bank branch in the Glebe, indicated it contained none of the precious metal.
The bar was stamped with the Royal Canadian Mint'Wednesday, November 1, 2017 |
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| Chris Powell - GATA |
| Global warming uncovers biggest Canadian gold deposit |
| Miners could not even see Canada's biggest gold deposit until a glacier receded and uncovered what lay beneath, according to one mining executive with operations in northern British Columbia.
Rudi Fronk, CEO of gold explorer Seabridge Gold, told Kitco News that the company acquired the KSM project back in June 2000 from Placer Dome, which had spent approximately $25 million at KSM, focusing on the Kerr and Suphurets deposits that were visible from the surface.
But one area the previous owner ignWednesday, October 18, 2017 |
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| Bullion Vault |
| Gold Price +0.6 vs 'Gradual Rate Rise' Dollar as ECB Back-Tracks on QE, Sterling Gains Amid Brexit Wrangling |
| The GOLD PRICE in Dollars eased back but held 0.6% higher for the week so far against the Dollar on Thursday as world stock markets rose following Janet Yellen's comment to lawmakers that the US Federal Reserve will raise interest rates only "gradually".
The British Pound meantime rose but London's FTSE-100 share index held almost 2% below last month's new record highs as Westminster's minority Conservative Government published its "Great RepealThursday, July 13, 2017 |
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 | Michael Ballanger |
| Stand on Guard for Thee (Canada) |
| Over the past 40 years, the British Columbia lumber business has always taken great glee in plucking the chin hairs out of Uncle Sam's beard by legislating protection for its markets by way of subsidies and tax credits with political parties catering and pandering to the voting workers in an industry that dominates the provincial workforce ranking second only to agriculture.
Each time one of the grey bristles was plucked from that star-spangled beard, the Big Man would flinch and growl and wavThursday, April 27, 2017 |
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 | Jeff Clark - Goldsilver |
| The Best Month of the Year to Buy Gold |
| (This update from Jeff Clark also includes recent developments on the themes he's been covering in the GoldSilver newsletter.)It’s a rare gem when you can look at history and reliably pinpoint a time that is the best buying opportunity of the year.But that’s exactly what we have with gold.We tallied the average monthly change in the gold price from 1975 (the year gold was legal to own again in the US) to present. Here’s what we found.Since 1975, the gold price has fallen more in March than any oTuesday, March 7, 2017 |
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| The Gold Report |
| TerraX Advancing Yellowknife, a 'World-Class Exploration Project' |
| TerraX has been moving full speed ahead exploring its large land package at the Yellowknife City Gold project, an area with historic high-grade mines, that experts predict could become a district-scale project.
In the last few weeks TerraX Minerals Inc. (TXR:TSX.V) commenced a 17,000-meter winter drill program at Yellowknife City Gold project, nearly tripled the size of its land position, received a land-use permit for Southbelt and relThursday, February 16, 2017 |
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 | Ronan Manly - Bullion Star |
| Swiss gold refinery Argor-Heraeus to be acquired by Private Equity investors |
| News has just emerged in the gold market that the giant Swiss precious metals refiner, Argor-Heraeus, has held discussions to be acquired, and that the likely outcome is an acquisition by a private equity group. This private equity group is believed to be London-based WRM CapInvest, part of Zurich headquartered WRM Capital. Other interested buyers are also believed to have examined a bid for Argor-Heraeus, including Japanese refining group Asahi and Swiss refining group MKS-PAMP, however, neitheThursday, November 3, 2016 |
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| The Gold Report |
| Jack Chan: This Past Week in Gold |
| Technical analyst Jack Chan charts recent movements in the gold and silver markets. With COT data showing signs of a bottom, Chan is waiting for price action to confirm.
Our proprietary cycle indicator is down but can be bottoming.
The gold sector is on a long-term buy signal. Long-term signals can last for months and years and are more suitable for investors holding for long term.
The gold sector is on a short-term buy signal. Short-term signals can lSaturday, October 22, 2016 |
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 | Mark O'Byrne - gold.ie |
| Trump and Clinton Are “Positive For Gold” – $1,900/oz by End of Year |
| Trump or Clinton are “positive for gold” and prices could rise to between $1,700 and $1,900 per ounce by year end according to Canadian gold mining magnate Rob McEwen.Gold “is a currency that doesn’t have a liability attached to it,” McEwen said Tuesday in an interview with Bloomberg at a gold conference in Colorado Springs.Robert McEwen Photographer: Victor J. Blue/Bloomberg“A store of value that has gone for millennia. And the big argument against gold used to be it costs you money to store itWednesday, September 21, 2016 |
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| 24hGold - Publicnow |
| GOLD Alto Stakes More Gold Claims at its 100 Owned Miner Lake Property, Beardmore-Geraldton Gold Belt, Ontario |
| Vancouver, B.C., August 18, 2016. Alto Ventures Ltd. (ATV: TSX-V) is pleased to report that it has increased the size of its Miner Lake property by over 30% to 3,328 ha through staking of six claims. The expansion of the property is in response to positive drill results where gold was intersected in eight of nine holes with one hole intersecting 39.2 metres averaging 0.6 g/t gold including 4.24 g/t gold over 1.5 metres. Gold mineralization is associated with altered hydrothermal breccia and sheaThursday, August 18, 2016 |
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| 24hGold - Publicnow |
| Golden Predator Increases Previously Announced Offering to C$16.7 Million |
| NEWS RELEASE TSX.V: GPY NR 16-21
July 6th, 2016
www.goldenpredator.com
Not for distribution into the United States or to U.S. newswire services
Golden Predator Increases Previously Announced Offering to C$16.7 Million
Vancouver, BC, July 6th, 2016: Golden Predator Mining Corp. (TSX.V: GPY) (the "Company") is pleased to announce that due to increased investor demand, it is increasing its previously announced private placement (see news release dated June 27th, 2016) from up to C$13.8 miTuesday, August 2, 2016 |
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| 24hGold - Publicnow |
| GOLD Kilo Goldmines Announces Private Placement and Closing of First Tranche |
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Kilo Goldmines Announces Private Placement and Closing of First Tranche
TORONTO, Ontario, July 27 2016 - Kilo Goldmines Ltd. ("Kilo" or the "Company") (TSX VENTURE: KGL) announced today that it is proceeding with a non-brokered private placement oThursday, July 28, 2016 |
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| 24hGold - Publicnow |
| GOLD Apex Resources Inc. Applies for Multi-Year Permit to Test High Grade Gold Mineralization at its KGM Gold Deposit |
| Vancouver, BC -- July 28, 2016: Apex Resources Inc. (TSX-V: APX; 'the Company, 'Apex') is pleased to report that it has filed an application with the BC Ministry of Energy and Mines for a multi-year permit to carry out a trenching, drilling and metallurgical sampling programs within the Company's KGM Gold Deposit on its Kena property. The proposed 5 year work program, calls for 47 drill pads and 30 trenches to test high grade gold zones within the multi-million tonne KGM deposit with the first yThursday, July 28, 2016 |
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| 24hGold - Publicnow |
| Mid-Year 2016 Exploration Update: Expansion of Whale Tail and V Zones at Amaruq; Initial Results Reported ... |
| Stock Symbol:AEM (NYSE and TSX)
TORONTO, July 27, 2016 /PRNewswire/ - Agnico Eagle Mines Limited (NYSE:AEM, TSX:AEM) ('Agnico Eagle' or the 'Company') is pleased to provide an update on its 2016 exploration activities at the Amaruq project in Nunavut, the Sisar Zone at Kittila, the Barsele project in Sweden, the 50% owned Odyssey prospect adjoining the Canadian Malartic mine, the Madrono prospect adjoining the Pinos Altos and Creston Mascota operations and the El Barqueno project in Mexico. HiWednesday, July 27, 2016 |
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