Gold Seeker Closing Report: Gold and Silver Fall With Stocks and Oil

	Close	Gain/Loss
Gold	$1707.10	-$34.20
Silver	$31.57	-$0.92
XAU	198.24	-3.26%
HUI	555.94	-3.02%
GDM	1585.79	-2.95%
JSE Gold	3122.33	-37.20
USD	78.78	+0.34
Euro	133.48	-0.67
Yen	128.74	-0.03
Oil	$98.34	-$2.15
10-Year	1.972%	-0.045
T-Bond	142.84375	+0.71875
Dow	11997.70	-1.63%
Nasdaq	2596.38	-1.99%
S&P	1234.35	-2.11%

Gold rose $14.85 to $1756.15 by a little after 8:30AM EST, but it then fell to as low as $1704.08 by late morning in New York and ended with a loss of 1.96%. Silver surged to as high as $33.217 before it also fell back off in New York and ended with a loss of 2.83%.

Euro gold fell to about €1280, platinum lost $30 to $1490, and copper dropped 5 cents to about $3.49.

Gold and silver equities fell over 3% by midmorning before they rebounded slightly at times, but they still ended with about 3% losses.

Report	For	Reading	Expected	Previous
Initial Claims	12/03	381K	395K	404K
Wholesale Inventories	Oct	1.6%	0.2%	0.0%

Tomorrow at 8:30AM EST brings the Trade Balance for October expected at -$44.0 billion. At 9:55 is Michigan Sentiment for December expected at 65.1.

Oil fell as the U.S. dollar index rose after the ECB did not commit to an extended bond buying program despite widely held expectations that they would do so.

“The European Central Bank doused hopes on Thursday it will ramp up its bond-buying program to fight the bloc's debt crisis, unnerving markets hours before a high-stakes EU summit they had hoped would produce a 'grand bargain' to end the turmoil.”

“The European Central Bank took modest steps Thursday to help revive Europe's economy and financial system, including cutting a key interest rate. But President Mario Draghi said there is no existing plan for large-scale government bond purchases, as markets had been hoping.”

Among the big names making news in the market Friday were Zynga, Wells Fargo, Ford, FedEx, Costco, and McDonald’s.

The ECB has reasonable funds available to it that, if used in the Euro bond market, would have some impact on containing rates.

Gold rises to $1762.50 , just below the $1764 angel. The new President of the European Central Bank says yes we have the money, but no we are not going to use it. Gold goes straight down into the first area of support at $1709- $1710 where it battles all afternoon.

Bloomberg releases an article saying that concerted central bank activity to control the price of gold was utilized today. Long scalpers barf out their positions based on the above jawboning MOPE. Gold ranges $100 so far today.

1. Now with a clear head, the ECB has the money and will be forced to use it or watch their best bond markets look like "Day After," and "Mad Max."

2. Central banks have been throwing blocks at the gold price ever since $248 without much success.

3. The Federal Reserve has made dollars available at cheap swap rates to the ECB. To think that is not a step in monetization because it will be used to buy non-dollar bonds is so glib that it communicated ignorance, not understanding. Systemic monetization has the same impact an insular monetization; it just uses other hands to do it.

Gold is headed in the $2000s. The low in the accordion chop has been established in the drop toward $1530. It does not matter if gold launches from $1710 or $1650, what matter is that it will.

“Yesterday gold was anticipating a stronger policy response coming out of the upcoming meeting in Brussels dealing with the sovereign debt crisis in the Eurozone. That brought buying back into a host of markets as well with equities rallying and the risk trades back on in full force. Today? Well, that was yesterday.

Once current ECB President Draghi basically squashed the idea of large bond purchases by the ECB, the market promptly threw away everything it put on yesterday totally reversing the risk trades as disappointment that the liquidity punch bowl was not going to be spiked as strongly as most were expecting took hold.

This madness will continue as long as uncertainty remains with traders seizing on every single bit of news to cram gobs of money into the markets or yank those same gobs back out again.

At some point it will resolve itself one way or the other but until it does, up and down is the order of the day. Perhaps something will come out of that meeting in Brussels tomorrow but who knows at this point.

As it now stands, gold remains mired in its coiling pattern. Notice how the downtrending upper resistance line is holding rallies in check.”- Dan Norcini, More at http://www.traderdannorcini.blogspot.com/

Note: Change in Total Tonnes from yesterday’s data: SPDR subtracted 2.118 tonnes.

COMEX Gold Trust (IAU) Total Tonnes in Trust: 171.50: No change from yesterday’s data.

Silver Trust (SLV) Total Tonnes in Trust: 9,726.76: +30.25 change from yesterday’s data.

Newmont’s (NEM) Environmental Impact Assessment details, Midway’s (MDW) drill results, Kirkland’s (KGI.TO) second quarter results, Golden Minerals’ (AUMN) drill results, and Alexco’s (AXU) drill results were among the big stories in the gold and silver mining industry making headlines today.

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

Pele Mountain Announces Appointment of Chief Financial Officer - More
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Colorado Court of Appeals Upholds Montrose County Special Use Permit for Energy Fuels' Pinon Ridge Mill - More
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North American Nickel Provides a Comparison Between 2011 SkyTEM and 1995 GeoTEM Geophysical Surveys Over Maniitsoq, Greenland Project - More
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Cassidy Gold Strategy Update - More
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Diamond Frank Exploration Closes a $444,000 Private Placement - More
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Thundermin and Cornerstone Commence 3,800 Metre Drilling Program at the Past-Producing Whalesback Copper Mine - More
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Orestone's Frankfurt Exchange Listing - More
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Ivernia Closes Previously Announced Financing - More
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Millrock Reports Additional Drill Results From Estelle Project, Alaska - More
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Bravo Drills 1024g/t Silver and 3.7g/t Gold Over 4.0 Metres, Expanding the Homestake Silver Deposit; Announces Financing - More
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Ascot Expands Large Gold System, Adds High Grade Values and Opens New Target Areas - More
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Steele Resources Corp. Cross Cuts Massive Structure at Mineral Hill Gold Mine - More
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Foundation Announces Positive Metallurgical Results for its Osmani Gold Deposit of the Coldstream Property - More
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Entourage Discovers High-Grade Gold in Initial Holes at Black Raven, Hemlo Greenstone Belt: 2.38 meters of 44.57 g/t Au, 0.3 meters of 128.0 g/t - More
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Ethos Identifies Gold Soil Anomaly at Wolf Property, Yukon - More
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A Modern Gold Rush: OxBridge Research Profiles Del Toro's Golden Vision - More
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Undur Tolgoi Minerals Inc. Closes the Second Tranche of its $7 Million Financing - More
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Cascadero Grants Gold Fields an Option to Acquire a 75% Interest in the Marble Mountain Gold Prospect in Sudbury, Ontario for a C$20 Million Expenditure - More
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Star Gold Approves 1:6 Reverse Stock - More
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Compass Gold Corporation Receives Minority Shareholder Approval to Africa Mining Acquisition - More
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Bearing Resources Drills 126 Metres Grading 0.54% Copper Equivalent at the Zymo Copper-Gold Project, British Columbia - More
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Puma Exploration Inc.: Dante Lens, a New Discovery on a Second E-W Main Fault Zone at Nicholas-Denys, New Brunswick - More
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First Colombia Gold Signs Assignment Agreement to Acquire South Idaho Silver Project - More
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Legal Proceeding Adjourned a Second Time - More
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Oroco Announces Start of Drilling Program - More
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Estrella Expands Daylight Gold Zone and Identifies Second Porphyry, Colpayoc Gold Project, Peru - More
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Newstrike Resources Ltd. Provides Exploration Update - More
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Rye Patch Announces Results of 2011 Lincoln Hill Drill Program - More
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West Kirkland Reports Expanded Gold Mineralization at TUG Property, Long Canyon Trend, Nevada - More
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Lithium Corporation Initiates Drill Permitting at San Emidio Lithium Prospect - More
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Double Crown Resources Continues to Build a Management Team of Natural Resource Industry Leaders With the Addition of Edwin Morrow - More
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Sandstorm Gold Announces a 250% Increase in Measured and Indicated Resources at Luna Gold's Aurizona Mine - More
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Prophecy Drills 384.9 Meters Grading 0.623 g/t PGM+Au, 0.3% Ni, 0.15% Cu (0.45% NiEq) from Surface at Yukon Wellgreen Project - More
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Luna Gold Announces Major Resource Update at Aurizona - More
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Otis Drills 48.8 Metres of 1.05 g/t Au at Kilgore; New Intercepts Further Extend Open-Ended Mineralization - More
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Grandview Gold Inc. Announces the Appointment of Mr. Carmello Marrelli as CFO and the Extension of the Expiry Date - More
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Indigo Makes Changes to Board of Directors and Advisory Board - More
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Yale Provides Update on Mexican Activities - More
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Siga Resources Announces Additional Lucky Thirteen Information - More
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2011 Drilling Completed at Miranda’s Red Canyon Project - More
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Eurotin's Oropesa Drill Program Continues Intercepting High Grade Tin Mineralization Over Significant Widths - More
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Northern Superior Resources Inc. Defines Four Additional Gold Targets, Ti-pa-haa-kaa-ning (TPK) Gold Property, Northwestern Ontario:Diamond Drilling to Commence - More
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Apogee Provides Update on Trial Mining and Production Plans at its Pulacayo Deposit - More
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F.D.G. Mining Announces Commencement of Drilling on the Topacio Concession, Nicaragua - More
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Brazil Resources Inc. Signs Option Agreement To Acquire Artulandia Gold Property In Goias State, Brazil - More
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THEMAC Resources Provides Further Results from 2011 Drilling at Copper Flat Project - More
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Asia Now Reports First NI43-101 Resource Estimate for its Beiya Gold-Silver-Polymetallic Project - More
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Talison Lithium and Sojitz Sign Memorandum of Understanding - More
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Newmont Provides Details on Conga's Environmental Impact Assessment - "Newmont Mining Corporation (NYSE: NEM - News) today provided additional details on the Conga project's Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA), which was approved in October 2010 . Conga's EIA was reviewed by 12 agencies before being approved by the Ministry of Energy and Mines in Peru . The public engagement process leading up to the approval included approximately 13,000 people from the neighboring communities, the Cajamarca region and elsewhere." More
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Midway Drills 334 gpt Gold at Tonopah Project, Nye County, Nevada - “We are pleased with the grades and length of our drill results in the Discovery Zone. Our 2011 drilling confirmed that the higher grade gold zones occur within lower grade blanket-like gold mineralization. This allows us to evaluate various mining methods including open pit or underground methods and select the best approach for the project. To avoid confusion with the company name, the Midway Project has been renamed the Tonopah Project.” More
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Golden Minerals Continues to Drill High Grade Silver With Wide Intercepts at the Yaxtche Deposit - "Golden Minerals Company (AMEX: AUMN - News) (TSX: AUM.TO - News) ("Golden Minerals" or "the Company") is pleased to provide additional assay results from the Company's drilling program at the Yaxtché deposit on the El Quevar project, located in the Salta Province in northwestern Argentina." More
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Alexco Intersects Multiple Zones of Silver Mineralization to 22.2 Meters True Thickness With Narrower Intervals to 141 Ounces Per Ton Silver Over 1.0 Meters - "Alexco Resource Corp. (TSX: AXR.TO - News)(AMEX: AXU - News) today announces interim results from its 2011 drilling program at the Bermingham property, located adjacent to the historical Hector Calumet mine within the Keno Hill Silver District in Canada's Yukon Territory. Previously-discovered zones of silver mineralization at Bermingham have been confirmed and expanded, with intercepts ranging up to 22.2 meters true width within a complex structural zone. Drill testing has spanned 350 meters along strike with the mineralized zone remaining open 300 meters down plunge, and high-grade intercepts of up to 346.8 ounces per ton (oz/T) silver over 0.12 meters have been recorded." More
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Kirkland Lake Gold Inc.: Fiscal 2012 Second Quarter Financial and Operational Results - "Second quarter production and financial results through end October have seen operations on budget and plan for the first half of fiscal 2012. The mine plan for the year is designed to increase production in the third and fourth fiscal quarters and the annual production target remains between 110,000 to 130,000 of gold. As at end of November, we were slightly ahead of plan in regards of ounces poured and sold." More
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