Gold Seeker Weekly Wrap-Up: Gold and Silver End Slightly Higher on the Week

	Close	Gain/Loss	On Week
Gold	$1381.20	-$5.30	+0.24%
Silver	$29.34	+$0.02	+0.79%
XAU	221.26	+0.96%	+1.18%
HUI	559.66	+0.79%	+0.56%
GDM	1663.25	+0.87%	+0.48%
JSE Gold	2653.61	-19.07	-2.46%
USD	80.47	-0.20	+0.11%
Euro	131.19	+0.18	-0.50%
Yen	120.55	+0.88	+1.21%
Oil	$91.51	+$1.03	+3.91%
10-Year	3.393%	+0.047	+1.89%
Bond	120.4375	-0.34375	-2.04%
Dow	11573.49	+0.12%	+0.71%
Nasdaq	2665.60	-0.22%	+0.86%
S&P	1256.77	-0.16%	+1.03%

Gold saw slight gains in Asia before it fell back off in London and early New York trade to see a $14.56 loss at as low as $1371.94 by about 10AM EST, but it then bounced back higher in the last few hours of trade and ended with a loss of just 0.38%. Silver fell to as low as $28.933 before it also rallied back higher and ended with a gain of 0.07%.

Euro gold fell to about €1053, platinum lost $11.50 to $1713.50, and copper fell a couple of cents to about $4.25.

Gold and silver equities fell about 1% at the open, but they then rallied back higher for most of the rest of the day and ended with about 1% gains.

Report	For	Reading	Expected	Previous
Personal Income	Nov	0.3%	0.2%	0.4%
Personal Spending	Nov	0.4%	0.5%	0.7%
PCE Prices - Core	Nov	0.1%	0.1%	0.0%
Durable Goods Orders	Nov	-1.3%	-1.1%	-3.1%
Durable Goods-exTrans.	Nov	2.4%	0.8%	-1.9%
Initial Claims	12/18	420K	424K	423K
Michigan Sentiment	74.5	74.5	74.8	74.2
New Home Sales	Nov	290K	300K	275K

Next week’s economic highlights include the Case-Shiller 20-city Index and Consumer Confidence on Tuesday, MBA Mortgage Applications on Wednesday, and Initial Jobless Claims, Chicago PMI, and Pending Home Sales on Thursday.

Oil rose to an over 2-year high on worries over tight supplies and increasing demand.

The U.S. dollar index reversed early gains and ended lower along with treasuries as the Dow, Nasdaq, and S&P shrugged off slightly worse than expected economic data and ended near unchanged.

Among the big names making news in the market Friday were Morgan Stanley and JPMorgan, J0-Ann Stores and Leonard Green, Rovi and Sonic Solutions, and Sunoco.

Note: Change in Total Tonnes from yesterday’s data: SPDR subtracted 9.413 tonnes.

COMEX Gold Trust (IAU) Total Tonnes in Trust: 116.63 - No change from yesterday’s data.

Silver Trust (SLV) Total Tonnes in Trust: 10,909.34 - No change from yesterday’s data.

Randgold’s (GOLD) production impacts, Kimber’s (KBX) closed offering, Alexco’s (AXU) closed financing, Avino’s (ASM.V) year end summary and outlook, and Silver Standard’s (SSRI) filed report were among the big stories in the gold and silver mining industry making headlines Friday.

Winners & Losers tracks NYSE and AMEX listed gold and silver mining stocks that trade over $1.

Focus Metals Closes Private Placement - More
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Matamec Has Completed a Private Placement of CAD $1,150,000 - More
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Athena Silver Corporation Announces Record Date for Spin-Off of Magellan Gold Corporation - More
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Cardero Resource Corp. Acquires Securities of Abzu Gold Ltd. - More
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Cartier Resources Inc. Announces Closing of a $599,989.68 Financing - More
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New Pacific Appoints New Director and Grants Options - More
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Operational and Political Issues Impact Randgold Resources Q4 Production - "Randgold Resources said today the effect of the continuing political impasse in Côte d'Ivoire on its Tongon mine and a below-target contribution from its Loulo complex would have a negative impact on its fourth quarter performance and its year end results." More
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Kria Resources Receives Positive Certificate of Determination on the Environmental Impact Assessment From New Brunswick Department of Environment - More
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Canadian Zinc Completes $2.5 Million Private Placement - More
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Uragold Increases Size of Third Non-Brokered Private Placement - More
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Luna Gold Announces Initial Resource Estimate at Cachoeira - More
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Malaga Receives $2.6 Million - More
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Pro Minerals Inc.: Drilling Complete-Assays Pending Shining Tree Gold Project-Ontario - More
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Golden Valley Mines Announces Incentive Stock Option Grant - More
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Spectral Capital Corporation: Spectral Capital Announces Acquisition of Controlling Mineral Interest - More
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Nature%u2019s Call Announces Completion of Initial Field Work Program at Los Amoles Property in Sonora State, Mexico - More
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Stellar Pacific Ventures Inc. Completes the Second Tranche of a Common Share Units and Flow-Through Units Offering and Increases the Maximum Number of B Units - More
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Midlands Announces Granting of Options - More
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Taku Wraps Up 2010 Exploration Season in Yukon - More
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Harte Announces $1,684,000 Initial Closing Under Private Placement - More
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AurCrest Closes 1st Tranche of Financing - More
- December 23, 2010 | Item | ShareThis

Pitchblack Resources Announces Issuance of Shares for Debt - More
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Pacific Ridge Closes Non-Brokered Private Placements and Raises $4,520,200 - More
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West Kirkland Options Property Adjoining Kirkland Lake Macassa Gold Mine From Queenston Mining - More
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THEMAC Announces Results of Annual General Meeting and Election of New Director - More
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Glen Eagle Closes Previously Announced Private Placement - More
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Diamond Frank Exploration Closes a $368,000 Private Placement at a Price of $0.36 per Share - More
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Star Gold Corp. Adds Sam Nastat to Board of Directors - More
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Selwyn Announces Change of Auditors - More
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Tahoe Resources Inc. Closes C$351,931,657 Bought Deal Financing - More
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Yorbeau Closes Private Placement - More
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Santa Fe Gold Enters into Contract to Sell Gold and Silver Concentrate to European Smelter - More
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Megastar Provides Clarification Regarding New Distribution Record Date - More
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Ventana Board of Directors Recommends Shareholders Reject AUX's Unsolicited Offer - More
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Adrian Rothwell Appointed CFO, Project Update - More
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Romios Gold to Be Featured on CEO Clips Airing on the Biography Channel - More
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Intrepid Mines Completes A$31.9 Million Share Purchase Plan - More
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Beaufield Drills 2085 Metres at Tortigny Before Christmas Break - More
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Brazil Gold Appoints Veteran Mining Exec Leigh Freeman to Board of Directors - More
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Key Gold Holding Inc.: Confirmation of NI-43-101 Report on Lac Musset Copper Property - More
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Inmet Announces Amendment of Subscription Agreement for Purchase of $500 million of Subscription Receipts by Temasek Holdings Subsidiary - More
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Jourdan Completes Private Placements for Gross Proceeds of $1,486,250 - More
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General Metals Announces the Members of Its Gold Production Team - More
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Kalimantan Gold Confirms Commitments to Private Placement - More
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Garibaldi Grants Option on King Property - More
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Shooting Gold Diggers at Barrick African Mine Coincides With Record Prices - "Barrick Gold Corp.’s North Mara mine near the Tanzanian border with Kenya disgorges millions of pounds of waste rock each week, piled high around communities where almost half the people live on less than 33 cents a day.

Children in school uniforms scurry across the rubble to reach their classes. Women with water pails atop their heads skirt past the heaps. The piles grow as the longest bull market for gold in at least 90 years pushes Barrick, the world’s largest miner of the precious metal, to increase production." More
- December 23, 2010 | Item | ShareThis

Kimber Announces Closing of C$12,719,000 Offering - "Kimber Resources Inc. (NYSE AMEX:KBX, TSX:KBR) ("Kimber" or the "Company") is pleased to announce that it has today closed the overnight marketed financing announced December 6, 2010 (the "Offering"). The Company has issued 9,085,000 units (the "Units") at a price of C$1.40 per Unit for gross proceeds of C$12,719,000. Each Unit consists of one common share of the Company and one-half of one common share purchase warrant. Each whole warrant (a "Warrant") will entitle the holder to purchase one common share of the Company for a period of two years following the closing of the Offering at a price of C$1.80." More
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Alexco Announces Closing of CAD$41,000,000 Bought Deal Financing - "Alexco Resource Corp. (TSX:AXR - News)(AMEX:AXU - News) ("Alexco" or the "Company") is pleased to announce that it has closed the bought deal equity financing announced December 7, 2010 (the "Offering"). The Company has issued 5,000,000 common shares at a price of CAD$8.20 per common share for gross proceeds of CAD$41,000,000." More
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Avino Provides Year End Summary and Outlook for 2011 - "I am pleased to present a review of Avino's achievements in 2010 and outlook for 2011. With precious metals prices at all times highs and continuing to climb, we are working aggressively to bring the San Gonzalo property into production and capitalize on the opportunities presented by the current markets." More
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Silver Standard Files NI 62-103 Report in Connection With Its Sale of the Snowfield and Brucejack Projects - "Silver Standard Resources Inc. ("Silver Standard") announced on December 21, 2010 that it completed the sale of the Snowfield and Brucejack projects and related assets (together the "Combined Project Assets") in northern British Columbia to Pretium Resources Inc. ("Pretium"). Silver Standard is issuing this news release to provide additional information in accordance with National Instrument 62-103." More
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