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Gold rush as prices drop in Laos
From the Vientiane Times, Laos
via Asia News Network and Yahoo News
Thursday, June 27, 2013
http://sg.news.yahoo.com/gold-rush-lao-prices-drop-060002085.html
VIENTIANE, Laos -- The recent drop in gold prices on the Lao market has brought buyers out in droves to purchase gold jewellery while it remains cheap.
According to gold shops in Vientiane, sale prices yesterday were at 5,060,000 kip (US$655) per baht-weight for gold jewellery -- down about 500,000 kip per baht-weight on previous months.
Buying prices yesterday closed at 4,812,500 kip per baht-weight.
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Jim Sinclair to hold seminars in July
in Chicago, Vancouver, and Scottsdale
Mining entrepreneur and gold trader Jim Sinclair is planning three more seminars on his view of the markets and gold's prospects -- in Chicago on Monday, July 8, in Vancouver on Wednesday, July 10, and in Scottsdale, Arizona, on Friday, July 12. Details can be found at his Internet site, JSMineSet.com, here:
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On world markets, gold prices in New York fell by 6.9 per cent or US$87.80 to US$1,286.20 per ounce on June 20.
Meanwhile on the Hong Kong exchange, prices fell to US$1,290.20 per ounce from US$1,336.80 per ounce on June 21.
According to gold traders, large numbers of buyers have visited gold shops in Vientiane to purchase gold jewellery and bars as an investment.
Some shops at the Talatsao Mall were stripped bare of all of their wares as a result of the gold rush.
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