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Chavez expects gold to be back in Venezuela in 'weeks'
Chavez Officially Nationalizes Venezuela's Gold Industry
From Agence France-Presse
via Google News
Tuesday, August 23, 2011
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CARACAS -- Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez signed into law Tuesday the official nationalization of the country's gold mining industry and announced the impending arrival of the first shipment of repatriated gold.
Chavez signed the "natural law that reserves the exploration and management of gold, as well as the connected activities, to the state" during a ministerial meeting broadcast by state media.
"In order to reinforce national independence, economic independence ... I sign this national decree for gold," the Venezuelan president added.
In December, Venezuelan lawmakers granted Chavez extraordinary legislative powers to govern the country by decree until the middle of next year.
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During the ceremony Chavez brandished a gold bullion from the Central Bank of Venezuela's coffers, which holds 154 tons of gold, an amount worth $7.2 billion.
Last week Chavez announced his intention to nationalize the country's gold sector in order to prevent "mafias" from exploiting Venezuela's natural resources. Illegal mining makes up 60 percent of local production in the gold sector.
Major producers include the state-run Minerven, the Russian Rusoro, which mines gold in the southern Bolivar state, and Cuba's Geominsal, which carries out assessments, all in association with the state.
Chavez also announced plans to repatriate 211.35 tons of gold from foreign countries. About 80 percent of the $11 billion worth of reserves are held in Britain, principally in the coffers of the Bank of England.
"I believe that the first shipment will arrive in the following weeks," Chavez said Tuesday.
The Venezuelan leader also announced that he expects to move some $6.2 billion in cash reserves from banks in Switzerland, Britain, France, and the United States to markets in "friendly" countries such as China, Russia, and Brazil.
The leading oil exporter in South America, Venezuela has the 15th largest gold reserves in the world, with an estimated 365.8 tons, according to the World Gold Council.
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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
