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Product Price
American Eagle Gold Coin (0.100 oz.) 133.58
Bullion Gold Bar .999+ Pure - CMX (Sealed) (1.000 oz.) 1,107.80
Canadian Maple Gold Coin (1.000 oz.) 1,131.80
S. African Krugerrand Gold Coin (0.100 oz.) 129.58
S. African Krugerrand Gold Coin (0.250 oz.) 288.95
S. African Krugerrand Gold Coin (0.500 oz.) 572.90
S. African Krugerrand Gold Coin (1.000 oz.) 1,129.80
Silver - Bullion .999 pure [Bars/Rounds] (1.000 oz.) 16.47
Silver - Bullion .999 pure - Buffalo Rounds (1.000 oz.) 16.48
Silver - Bullion .999 pure [Bars/Rounds] - CMX (1.000 oz.) 16.53
Silver - Bullion .999 pure - Heraeus Bar (1.000 oz.) 16.53
Silver - Bullion .999 pure [Bar] (10.000 oz.) 164.80
Silver - Bullion .999 pure [Bar] - CMX (10.000 oz.) 165.80
Silver - Bullion .999 pure - Heraeus Bar (10.000 oz.) 165.80
Silver - Bullion .999 pure - Morgan Head Bar (10.000 oz.) 164.80
Silver - Bullion .999 pure [Bar] - CMX (100.000 oz.) 1,614.00

News
Safest, Smartest Way to Own Gold? Consider Royalty Trusts
There is an invigorating debate on SA between those who believe the safest and smartest way to own gold is via physical ownership of the physical m...
Date: Wed, 10 Feb 2010 01:06:36 -0600    Source: SeekingAlpha Gold Stocks
Havilah Resources NL (ASX:HAV) Planned Activities For First Quarter Of 2010
Against a background of continuing buoyancy in commodity prices, Havilah Resources NL (ASX:HAV) plans an active year balanced between moving its ad...
Date: Tue, 09 Feb 2010 23:57:09 -0600    Source: Asia Business and Finance News
Mali is Gold Fields ‘new frontier' – Turner
Mali is Gold Fields "new frontier", says Gold Fields West Africa head Peter Turner.The company's focus area is the prospective Yanfolila belt: "It'...
Date: Tue, 09 Feb 2010 22:53:00 -0600    Source: Miningweekly
Paulson's Gold-Metal Run Falls Short
John Paulson scored big on bets against subprime mortgages. He's so far having a tough time winning over investors for his gold fund.
Date: Tue, 09 Feb 2010 22:06:08 -0600    Source: WSJ.com: Money and Investing
Gold, Little Changed, May Advance as Dollar Falls on Eased EU Debt Concern
Gold may climb for a second day asconcerns that Greece’s deficit may lead to debt defaults eased,weakening the dollar and boosting the metal&...
Date: Tue, 09 Feb 2010 20:27:08 -0600    Source: Bloomberg: Financial News, Commodities
BC, MT say no mines, oil or gas in the Flathead
Leaders of Montana and British Columbia said Tuesday they will ban drilling and mining in a remote valley along the US-Canada border that companies...
Date: Tue, 09 Feb 2010 19:59:44 -0600    Source: San Francisco Chronicle: Business
OZ Minerals Positive About Prominent
OZ Minerals Ltd says its Prominent Hill copper and gold mine in South Australia is expected to deliver a net profit of $190 million to $210 million...
Date: Tue, 09 Feb 2010 19:55:00 -0600    Source: BNET.com - Recent Asset-Based Lending White Papers
Why gold price will plunge to $800 per ounce
In the last few months, we have been reading predictions and forecasts from bullion analysts who insisted and argued that gold price is booming to ...
Date: Tue, 09 Feb 2010 15:40:15 -0600    Source: IBTimes.com - Markets
RX Extends Drumlummon D-Block Zone With High-Grade Gold Over Width
TORONTO, CANADA--(Marketwire - Feb. 9, 2010) - RX Exploration Inc. (CNSX:RXE) (the "Company") is pleased to announce that it has extended the high ...
Date: Tue, 09 Feb 2010 15:14:00 -0600    Source: MarketWire: Financial Services
In The News Today
Thought For The Day: Gold has spoken out both before and after US trading hours for two days now on the developments taking place in the darkened ...
Date: Tue, 09 Feb 2010 14:47:00 -0600    Source: Jim Sinclair's MineSet
Gold, Silver Advance as Slumping Dollar Spurs Demand for Precious Metals
Gold prices climbed for a second dayas a declining dollar increased demand for bullion as analternative asset. Silver, platinum and palladium also ...
Date: Tue, 09 Feb 2010 14:34:15 -0600    Source: Bloomberg: Financial News, Australia & New Zealand
Gold, Silver Gain as Slumping Dollar Boosts Demand for Precious Metals
Gold prices climbed for a second dayas a declining dollar increased demand for bullion as analternative asset. Silver, platinum and palladium also ...
Date: Tue, 09 Feb 2010 14:09:09 -0600    Source: Bloomberg: Financial News, Commodities
The “Second Round of Pain”
If you’ve been thinking about reducing exposure to stocks, now might be a good time. And if you’ve been thinking about increasing your exposure to ...
Date: Tue, 09 Feb 2010 13:11:59 -0600    Source: The Daily Reckoning
Salary hikes by US firms in 2010 at 25-year lows
The 2010 budgets of US companies for salary increases barely exceed inflation, meaning pay for US workers may only just keep up with cost of living...
Date: Tue, 09 Feb 2010 13:09:57 -0600    Source: Emirates Business24|7 - Financial
Hourly Action In Gold From Trader Dan
Dear CIGAs, Welcome back to the reflation trade and the end of “deflation” talk once more. The soaring equity markets and surge higher in the Euro...
Date: Tue, 09 Feb 2010 12:23:25 -0600    Source: Jim Sinclair's MineSet
Gold ends 1% higher on report of Greek bailout
NEW YORK (MarketWatch) -- Gold futures finished 1% higher on Tuesday, as talk of a German plan to rescue Greece led stocks to rally, removing safe-...
Date: Tue, 09 Feb 2010 12:07:14 -0600    Source: CBS MarketWatch.com - MarketPulse
Endeavour Silver Acquires Option to Purchase San Sebastian Silver-Gold
(AP) — VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA -- (Marketwire)-02/09/10 -- Endeavour Silver Corp. (TSX: EDR)(TSX: EDR.WT)(NYSE Amex:EXK)(DBFrankfurt: EJD)...
Date: Tue, 09 Feb 2010 12:07:04 -0600    Source: NOLA.com: Petrolium News
Gold Gains in New York and London as Weaker Dollar Spurs Investor Demand
Gold gained in New York and London asa weaker dollar increased demand for bullion as an alternativeinvestment. Other precious metals rose.
Date: Tue, 09 Feb 2010 11:56:10 -0600    Source: Bloomberg: Financial News, Commodities
Metals Stocks: Gold rallies on report of Greek bailout
Gold and metals futures rally, as a report that Germany may rescue Greece from its debts boosts the euro, pressuring the dollar and lifting the pri...
Date: Tue, 09 Feb 2010 11:32:00 -0600    Source: CBOE 10-Year Treasury Yield Index
Bailing Out a Welfare State: The California-Greece Debate
Trichet to Greece: Drop Dead! Obama to California: Uh… Yesterday, stocks lost 103 points on the Dow. This looked like a confirmation to us....
Date: Tue, 09 Feb 2010 11:10:35 -0600    Source: The Daily Reckoning
Jim’s Mailbox
Long Term U.S. Government Bonds CIGA Eric Long-term U.S. Government Bonds: "It is our dollar but your problem." But for how much longer? It wil...
Date: Tue, 09 Feb 2010 10:57:49 -0600    Source: Jim Sinclair's MineSet
On course to mine gold on greens
Abu Dhabi is sharpening its focus on golf courses as a means of bringing larger numbers of higher spending visitors to the emirate and keeping them...
Date: Tue, 09 Feb 2010 09:17:00 -0600    Source: The National Newspaper | Business
Debunking the Austrian Theory of Gold
From The Street.com: Alan Heap, an analyst at Citi Investment Research, adds a bearish voice to a crowded debate over where the precious...
Date: Tue, 09 Feb 2010 09:10:09 -0600    Source: SeekingAlpha Gold Stocks
Yukon Gold Mining Alliance to Showcase Yukon Investment Opportunities
Date: Tue, 09 Feb 2010 08:41:37 -0600    Source: Stockhouse Canada
21st Century Alchemy Turns Paper to Gold - Chris Potter
Not only does Chris Potter stand by his claim that India's big gold buy late last year was a game-changer, the way he explains it in this exclusi...
Date: Tue, 09 Feb 2010 08:04:56 -0600    Source: SeekingAlpha Gold Stocks
U.S. Salary Increase Budgets Nearly Matching Inflation
NEW YORK, Feb. 9 /PRNewswire/ -- With total salary increase budgets now barely exceeding inflation, even top performers may barely be keeping up wi...
Date: Tue, 09 Feb 2010 08:00:00 -0600    Source: PR Newswire: Banking/Financial Services
US FX FUTURES REPORT
Most of the foreign currency futures traded as expected in the Far East, with all the European and commodity currencies but the pound marginally up...
Date: Tue, 09 Feb 2010 07:23:24 -0600    Source: fxstreet: futures news
Gold climbs towards $1 070/oz as dollar slips
GOLD prices rose in Europe today as the dollar weakened versus the euro amid speculation a rescue plan for struggling Greece may be arranged soon, ...
Date: Tue, 09 Feb 2010 07:08:08 -0600    Source: Business Day: Markets
China Sovereign Fund Becomes Oil ETF's No. 4 Holder, Buys SPDR Gold Trust
China Investment Corp., the nation’s sovereign wealth fund, invested for the first time in the U.S. Oil Fund, an exchange-traded crude-future...
Date: Tue, 09 Feb 2010 06:47:54 -0600    Source: Bloomberg: Top Worldwide
The Day Ahead: Stock Markets Reversing Course?
Posted To: MND NewsWireStock markets may be reversing course after investors pushed down the Dow by 1.04% yesterday. Increased speculation that the...
Date: Tue, 09 Feb 2010 06:25:54 -0600    Source: MortgageNewsDaily.com
China increases hold over car market
• Government stimulus and tax cuts spur sales to 1.32m• China world's largest auto market as gap with US widensChina widened its lead over the US a...
Date: Tue, 09 Feb 2010 06:25:26 -0600    Source: Guardian Unlimited: Business
Gold Gains in London as Weaker Dollar Spurs Investor Demand; Silver Rises
Gold gained in London as a weakerdollar increased demand for the metal as an alternativeinvestment.
Date: Tue, 09 Feb 2010 05:36:09 -0600    Source: Bloomberg: Financial News, Commodities
Q&A: Where should I invest in 2010?
Invesco Perpetual, the global investment management company, has asked ten fund mangagers to provide their outlook for markets around the world. ...
Date: Tue, 09 Feb 2010 05:28:39 -0600    Source: Money Central - Times Online - WBLG
South Africa: Metals Prices Almost Wipe Out Angloplat Profit
ANGLO Platinum (Angloplat) said yesterday that full-year headline earnings declined nearly 100% from the previous year due to plummeting metal prices.
Date: Tue, 09 Feb 2010 03:37:17 -0600    Source: AllAfrica News: Economy, Business and Finance
Great Basin says Burnstone mine employs local workers
South African miner Great Basin Gold has employed some of the workforce for its new Burnstone mine from the local community, a spokesperson for the...
Date: Tue, 09 Feb 2010 02:28:00 -0600    Source: Miningweekly
Traders Increase Bets Against Euro
All this and more is available on our video blog $8bn against the single currency Political fear weakens sterling ahead of tomorrow’s Inflation Rep...
Date: Tue, 09 Feb 2010 02:20:41 -0600    Source: fxstreet: world market news
South Africa: Angloplat to Cut Debt in R12,5bn Share Sale
ANGLO Platinum (Angloplat) - the world's largest miner of the precious metal - yesterday announced plans to launch SA's biggest rights issue to dat...
Date: Tue, 09 Feb 2010 01:59:13 -0600    Source: AllAfrica News: Economy, Business and Finance
We also note that Gold tested the previous key support 1075 overnight
Market Comment Very interesting bar on daily chart Friday in the S&P 500 futures with daily... For more information, read our latest forex news ...
Date: Tue, 09 Feb 2010 01:58:44 -0600    Source: fxstreet: futures news
Zimbabwe: Two SA Companies Align to Develop Country's Gold Deposits
SOUTH Africa-based privately owned mining house Clarity Capital has formed an alliance with a subsidiary of the JSE-listed Aveng group, E+PC Engine...
Date: Tue, 09 Feb 2010 01:15:07 -0600    Source: AllAfrica News: Stock Markets
China's CIC fund bets on North American coal, gold, iron ore, potash
The $200-billion China Investment Corp. has made substantial investments in the North American mining industry and, in particular, Teck Resources.
Date: Mon, 08 Feb 2010 23:50:10 -0600    Source: Mineweb
China Wealth Fund Becomes Oil ETF's No. 4 Holder, Buys SPDR Gold Trust
China Investment Corp., the nation’ssovereign wealth fund, joined Goldman Sachs Group and MorganStanley & Co. in investing in the U.S. Oil Fu...
Date: Mon, 08 Feb 2010 22:59:19 -0600    Source: Bloomberg: Funds
China Becomes Oil ETF’s No. 4 Holder, Buys SPDR Gold Trust
China Investment Corp., the nation’s sovereign wealth fund, joined Goldman Sachs Group and Morgan Stanley & Co. in investing in the U.S. Oil Fund, ...
Date: Mon, 08 Feb 2010 22:12:26 -0600    Source: Business Week: Global Business
OZ sees full-year profit between $190m and $210m (The West Australian)
OZ Minerals says its Prominent Hill copper and gold mine in South Australia will likely deliver a net profit of $190 million to $210 million for ca...
Date: Mon, 08 Feb 2010 21:54:12 -0600    Source: Your Money
High gold price puts a shine on mining companies profits
Profits for gold producers Harmony Gold Mining and Randgold Resources were lifted by gold prices that rose to a record in the last quarter of last ...
Date: Mon, 08 Feb 2010 19:00:01 -0600    Source: Business Report - Mining
Political meddling with property has never worked
http://www.stuff.co.nz/business/blog...s-never-workedby Bruce SheppardIt seems that it is an almost timeless belief of politicians that rapidly ris...
Date: Mon, 08 Feb 2010 18:11:58 -0600    Source: PropertyTalk.com
UAE studies new investment-grade gold coin
The central bank is studying a proposal for a new gold coin that could be used as an investment vehicle, Ahmed Bin Sulayem, executive chairman of D...
Date: Mon, 08 Feb 2010 17:48:55 -0600    Source: 7DAYS News | Business | Local
Economic Recovery: Demanding More Purchasing Power
What a delight it would be to have some inflation! Yes, dear reader, that’s the real reason that fiscal stimulus appears to work. That is, that’s t...
Date: Mon, 08 Feb 2010 17:00:42 -0600    Source: The Daily Reckoning
Gold eases on fund liquidation, weak sentiment
NEW YORK/LONDON (Reuters) - Gold prices erased initial gains to trade slightly lower on Monday, as technical selling and fund liquidation amid unce...
Date: Mon, 08 Feb 2010 15:23:23 -0600    Source: Reuters Financial News
Gold Gains Most in a Week in New York as Halt in Dollar Rally Spurs Demand
Gold gained the most in a week as ahalt in the dollar’s rally may increase demand for the metal asan alternative investment.
Date: Mon, 08 Feb 2010 14:46:03 -0600    Source: Bloomberg: Financial News, Commodities
Century says Peru workers back at work
Striking mine workers at Century Mining's San Juan gold miner in Peru have returned to work and operations have resumed, the company reported on Mo...
Date: Mon, 08 Feb 2010 13:53:00 -0600    Source: Miningweekly

Market Summary
Metal
Last
Change
Gold
1075.80 [down]
-1.40
Silver
15.480 [up]
0.045
Platinum
1499.70 [down]
-2.70
Palladium
415.70 [down]
-0.90
02/10/10 03:06:23 AM CST
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