USD by itself

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Awful US Dollar chart and the fundamentals are also extremely troublesome. I think it is only a matter of (not much) time for us to see the green buck reaching 80. That will be a dramatic set up as this level is a long term support and below it is nobody´s land.

Let´s see what will happen and what kind of reaction we may observe on Gold.

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Tara Gold Resources

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Tara Gold (TRGD) is a growth-oriented precious metals exploration and development company by re-initiating and increasing production levels at La Currita, Lluvia de Oro and Picacho, and developing the San Miguel, La Millionaria, Pilar De Mocoribo and Las Minitas projects in Mexico.

Last week the company bought Don Ramon and Lourdes mineral concessions near Pilar De Mocoribo. Preliminary evaluation indicates that the property lies within a larger area that hosts numerous and very-high grade Pb-Zn-Ag Carbonate (Limestone) hosted deposits.

Tara Gold has initiated La Millonaria Production Plant, which contain an estimated 30,000 tonnes grading of 9.702 g/t gold and 23 g/t silver.

This junior miner is well in action and has very good potential not only on precious metals but also on base metals.

Let´s go!

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Trailing the performance of stocks is imperative. On a day like today it is important to notice two gold stocks that closed the week on strength. It is the case of Northern Dynasty (NAK) and Eldorado (EGO).

But they were not alone as Agnico (AEM), Harmony (HMY), Silver Wheaton (SLW), Abcourt (ABI.V), Ivanhoe (IVN), Gold Reserve (GRZ), Miramar (MNG), Eurozinc (EZM), Yamana (AUY), Aurelian (ARU.V), among others, had rallied for the last four weeks.

Kinross merges with Bema

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If Toronto’s Kinross Gold (NYSE:KGC) succeeds in its all-share $3.1 billion merger with fellow Canadian Bema Gold, Kinross will move up in the senior ranks of gold producers.

Each Bema common share would be exchanged for 0.441 of a Kinross common share, representing a 34% premium. After the transaction is completed, 61% of new Kinross would be held by Kinross shareholders and 39% by Bema shareholders. If the transaction fails, Bema (NYSE:BGO) would pay Kinross a $Cdn$79 million break fee.

Analysts were not enthusiastic about the prospect of Kinross taking on Bema’s ownership of the Cerro Casale project in Chile. While Cerro Casale is estimated to contain proven and probable resources of 23 million ounces of gold and 6 billion pounds of copper, analyst Mark Smith of Dundee Securities declared “the project’s awfully expensive,” requiring an initial capex of $2 billion. Both Placer Dome and Barrick have decided against developing the project.

Northern Dynasty Minerals

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Northern Dynasty (NAK) is advancing the Pebble Project, located in southwestern Alaska, USA, that hosts a world class gold-copper- molybdenum deposit, comprising 22,582 hectares.

The estimated mineral resources in the Pebble East and West deposits are of 54.8 million ounces of gold, 44.7 billion pounds of copper and 2.7 billion pounds of molybdenum.

There is excellent potential to establish significant additional resources with further drilling. Northern Dynasty is now establishing programs in order to integrate this exceptional discovery into an overall mine plan that is optimal for the project.

This an extraordinary project, located on American soil and the company is assessing the merits of building a consortium to permit, finance, construct and operate a modern and long life mine with very substantial annual metal output.

This is the biggest gold discovery ever in North America and majors are already on the race to take over. The first step was already taken last June when Rio Tinto affiliate Kennecott Canada Exploration acquired 9.9% interest in the company.