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Comex gold, silver margins raised 50%; and Wash. state might fingerprint gold buyers
9p MT Friday, February 18, 2011
Dear Friend of GATA and Gold (and Silver):
GoldAlert.com in Northbrook, Illinois, reports that CME Group, which runs the New York Commodity Exchange, this week raised gold and silver futures trading margins by 50 percent. GoldAlert says: "If the CME and federal policymakers are trying to suppress the price of gold and silver, as many have suggested, they would be much better served urging Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke to end his reckless quantitative easing programs instead."
The GoldAlert report can be found here:
http://www.goldalert.com/2011/02/cme-lifts-gold-silver-margins-by-50/
Zero Hedge quickly pronounced margin increases "the last recourse of gold and silver price suppression," signifying that central banks "are well on their way to losing the imposed gold standard wars":
http://www.zerohedge.com/article/if-cme-hikes-gold-and-silver-margins-50...
Meanwhile, Zero Hedge also reports that several legislators in Washington state have introduced a bill to require fingerprinting and other identifications of anyone who purchases more than a tenth of an ounce of gold:
http://www.zerohedge.com/article/prepare-give-all-private-data-any-gold-...
Just another day in the land of the free and the home of the cowed.
CHRIS POWELL, Secretary/Treasurer
Gold Anti-Trust Action Committee Inc.
Prophecy Resource Spins Off Platinum/Palladium Venture:
World-Class PGM Deposit in Yukon
Company Press Release, January 18, 2011
VANCOUVER, British Columbia -- Prophecy Resource Corp. (TSX-V:PCY)and Pacific Coast Nickel Corp. announce that they have agreed that PCNC will acquire Prophecy's Nickel PGM projects by issuing common shares to Prophecy.
PCNC will acquire the Wellgreen PGM Ni-Cu and Lynn Lake nickel projects in the Yukon Territory and Manitoba respectively by issuing up to 550 million common shares of PCNC to Prophecy. PCNC has 55.7 million shares outstanding.
Following the transaction:
-- Prophecy will own approximately 90 percent of PCNC.
-- PCNC will consolidate its share capital on a 10 old for one new basis.
-- Prophecy will change its name to Prophecy Coal Corp. and PCNC will be renamed Prophecy Platinum Corp.
-- Prophecy intends to distribute half of its PCNC shares to shareholders pro-rata in accordance with their holdings.
Based on the closing price of the common shares of PCNC on January 17, $0.195 per share, the gross value of the transaction is $107,250,000.
For the complete announcement, please visit:
http://prophecyresource.com/news_2011_jan18.php
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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
