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As yuan sinks, Goldman sees rising gold demand in China
From Bloomberg News
Tuesday, October 25, 2016
Further weakness in China's currency and investors' concerns over the outlook for the nation's property market may spur gold demand in Asia's top economy, according to Goldman Sachs Group Inc., which made the forecast as the offshore yuan sank to a record.
"The potential drivers of increased Chinese physical buying include purchasing gold as a way to hedge for potential currency depreciation in the face of capital controls," analysts including Jeffrey Currie and Max Layton, wrote in a report dated Monday. Bullion consumption in China may also rise "as a way of diversifying away from the property market," they said. ...
... For the remainder of the report:
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-10-25/as-yuan-retreats-goldm...
Sandspring Resources Commences 2016 Exploration Campaign
Company Announcement
August 17, 2016
Sandspring Resources Ltd. (TSX VENTURE:SSP, US OTC: SSPXF) is pleased to announce commencement of the 2016 exploration campaign at its Toroparu Gold Project in Guyana, South America.
In 2015 the company completed a 3,700-meter diamond drilling program on the promising Sona Hill Prospect, located 5 kilometers southeast of the main Toroparu deposit. Sona Hill is the easternmost gold anomaly in a cluster of 10 gold features located within a 20-by-7-kilometer hydrothermal alteration halo around Toroparu. Drilling at Sona Hill in 2012 and in 2015 intercepted high-grade mineralization in both saprolite and bedrock, and confirmed the continuity and grade potential of the Sona Hill mineralization.
For the remainder of the announcement and highlights of the 2015 drill program:
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/sandspring-resources-commences-2016-explo...
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