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Vietnam to Allow Gold Imports to Cool Local Prices
By Tran Thuy
Reuters
Tuesday, August 23, 2011
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/08/23/vietnam-gold-idUSL4E7JN0VX2011...
HANOI, Vietnam -- Vietnam's central bank has authorised at least one domestic firm to import more gold to help cool soaring prices and state-run newspapers said it may open the market to unlimited imports to narrow the gap between local and world quotes.
Central bank officials, including Governor Nguyen Van Binh, could not be reached for an immediate comment, but sources with knowledge of a meeting between Binh and senior editors on Tuesday morning to discuss gold-related policies said the issue of allowing unlimited imports did not come up.
However, the State Bank of Vietnam has agreed to allow Saigon Jewelry Co (SJC), one of the country's biggest gold trading companies, to import gold based on its demand, said Nguyen Cong Tuong, deputy director of sales at SJC.
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Sona Drills 85.4g Gold/Ton Over 4 Metres at Elizabeth Gold Deposit,
Extending the Mineralization of the Southwest Vein on the Property
Company Press Release, October 27, 2010
VANCOUVER, British Columbia -- Sona Resources Corp. reports on five drillling holes in the third round of assay results from the recently completed drill program at its 100 percent-owned Elizabeth Gold Deposit Property in the Lillooet Mining District of southern British Columbia. Highlights from the diamond drilling include:
-- Hole E10-66 intersected 17.4g gold/ton over 1.54 metres.
-- Hole E10-67 intersected 96.4g gold/ton over 2.5 metres, including one assay interval of 383g of gold/ton over 0.5 metres.
-- Hole E10-69 intersected 85.4g gold/ton over 4.03 metres, including one assay interval of 230g gold/ton over 1 metre.
Four drill holes, E10-66 to E10-69, targeted the southwestern end of the Southwest Vein, and three of the holes have expanded the mineralized zone in that direction. The Southwest Vein gold mineralization has now been intersected over a strike length of 325 metres, with the deepest hole drilled less than 200 metres from surface.
"The assay results from the Southwest Zone quartz vein continue to be extremely positive," says John P. Thompson, Sona's president and CEO. "We are expanding the Southwest Vein, and this high-grade gold mineralization remains wide open down dip and along strike to the southwest."
For the company's full press release, please visit:
http://sonaresources.com/_resources/news/SONA_NR19_2010.pdf
The move would help narrow the difference between domestic and international prices, which on Tuesday was around $45 an ounce. Analysts say the gap fuels gold smuggling and speculation.
"State Bank's permission to import has effectively cut the domestic price from up to $100 higher than international price per tael to a few hundred thousand dong," SJC's Tuong said.
Early this month, the State Bank of Vietnam approved 5 tonnes of gold imports and said it could double the quantity soon as surging prices sparked a frenzy at gold dealers and jewellers.
The State Bank said in a statement on Tuesday three tonnes of gold had been imported by far.
The measures come as gold prices in Vietnam rose to fresh record highs in recent days as world prices surged to all-time highs above $1,910 on Tuesday, due to gold's safe-haven allure amid nagging fears about the world economy.
Vietnam's move to allow more gold imports adds to the picture of rising Asian demand after recent purchases by central banks in Thailand and South Korea.
SJC offered to sell gold at a record of 48.87 million dong ($2,347) per tael in Hanoi on Tuesday, SJC data showed. The latest price indicates a rise of more than 9 percent from a week ago.
One tael is equivalent to 37.5 grams or 1.21 troy ounce.
In a detailed measure to help cool gold markets published on Tuesday, the State Bank of Vietnam said it would monitor production and trading of gold bullion more strictly by issuing permits to a number of its selected trading firms.
This would allow the central bank "to intervene effectively in the gold market to fight against gold price speculation", the central bank said in a statement on its website.
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Working Americans are not saving, which enables the banks to lead the country into a cycle of debt, leverage, boom, panic, and bust.
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