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High-frequency trading radio masts criticized by planners
By Hannah Murphy
Financial Times, London
Sunday, January 22, 2017
U.S. high-frequency traders aiming to build radio towers taller than the Shard in a tiny village in the English countryside have been criticized by local planning officials ahead of a crucial council meeting next week.
Three traders are behind plans to build two vast masts in Kent to clip milliseconds off trading speeds between London and Frankfurt, but the size of the towers has attracted local opposition.
The fate of the masts will be decided at a Dover council meeting on Thursday, which will judge whether to overrule residents' protests and a report last week by a local planning official that they would damage views of the landscape, which contains the remnants of a Roman fort.
The standoff highlights the lengths to which electronic traders are prepared to go to receive valuable trading data before rivals, by beaming information over hundreds of miles using radio microwaves. ...
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https://www.ft.com/content/048c59a0-df26-11e6-9d7c-be108f1c1dce
At 3 Aces Project, Golden Predator Finds 7.5 Meters of 33 Grams-Per-Tonne Gold
Company Announcement
Thursday, January 19, 2017
VANCOUVER, British Columbia, Canada -- Golden Predator Mining Corp. (TSX.V: GPY; OTCQX: NTGSF) is pleased to report assay results for the first 13 holes of a total of 54 holes completed in the winter 2016 drill program at the 3 Aces Project in southeastern Yukon Territory.
Drilling has demonstrated an extension of high-grade gold at the Ace of Spades zone, as well as the exciting discovery of a blind vein and the occurrence of significant assay values in stockwork zones.
Significant results reported at true width include:
-- Hole 3A16-RC-032 intersected 7.54 meters of 32.86 grams per tonne gold from a depth of 16.76 meters, including 0.54 meters of 252 grams per tonne gold; and a new blind vein at a depth of 71.63 meters returned 3.23 meters of 10.04 grams per tonne gold. (The hole ended in mineralization. ...
For the remainder of the announcement:
http://www.goldenpredator.com/_resources/news/nr_2017_01_19.pdf
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