Articles filed during January, 2009.

The negotiable prime matters in bag (ETC) - values that rise and fall down with the oil, gold and other products - happen in his best moment to invest on the volatile markets, said on Monday the chief of ETF Securities Ltd. “Last two days of operations, except Friday, have brought in 500.000 million dollars for the door, of which 60 % has been in gold and 30 % in energy. This has been a record week”, he added. The ETFs and ETCs are values that continue the value of an underlying instrument, like the golden ingot or the futures of oil like the American crude oil or raw Brent del Mar Norte.

The Peruvian production of gold, silver, copper and zinc increased the year 2008 opposite to 2007.
The National Institute of Statistics and Computer science of Peru (INEI) and the Department of Energy and Mines Peru (Minem) has been communicated that in the mining activity the golden production in 2008 has increased 5,66 % and that of silver 5,2 %. The golden production grew last year 5,66 %, to 179.870.473 thin grams. The mine-layer Yanacocha, the biggest gold-mine of South America and with 44 % of participation of the Peruvian Good luck, exported in 2008 for 1.571 million dollars, 41 % more than in the previous year of 2007. The Mine-layer Barrick Misquichilca, daughter company of the Canadian Barrick Gold, exported in 2008 gold for 1.378 million dollars, that is to say, more than 22 % than in 2007.

The investors are looking for the safety of the physical gold because the economic suspense and the falls of the money-market rates reduce the interest in other assets, while the premiums for coins and golden bars climb. The metal counsel GFMS has communicated on Thursday that the demand for golden ingots stayed firm in 2008, with regard to that of the previous year, because a liquidation of institutional investors to obtain funds and to cover losses on other markets was compensated by a new interest in the physical gold.

The Canadian mine-layer Gold Hawk Resources said that it obtained the necessary permission to install a new court of relaves like part of a plan to begin again the operation of his gold-mine Coricancha in Peru.
The area contains approximately 744.000 metric tons of relaves, to the side of the concentrating plant of the mine-layer Saint John and surrounds to the river flowing Rímac of the Pacific Ocean.

The worry for the health of the international financial system has encouraged the world demand for pure gold. “It has been 30 years since I am in the business of the gold and I have never seen anything equal. The production has increased dramatically from the middle of the year and we do not give supply opposite to this demand.” there says Bernhard Schnellmann, service manager of precious metals of the refinery Argor-Heraeus, one of the biggest three of the world.

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