Gold Ends Lower after Bernanke's Mixed QE Signals - MarketWatch 05/22/13
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Gold Ends Down As Federal Reserve News Deemed Bearish - Kitco 05/22/13
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China Demand Drives Asian Gold Bar Premiums to Record Highs
Premiums for gold bars in Hong Kong touched a new all-time high of $6 an ounce over spot London prices, up from $5 last week. Singapore premiums rose to $5. - Mineweb 05/22/13
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Silver Nanoparticles See the Light
Researchers in Singapore have stumbled across a simple but as yet unexplained way to make silver nanoparticles luminescent. The finding is potentially important because luminescence is often used to track the movement and location of nanoparticles – within cells, for example. - Chemistry World 05/22/13
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Fallout Spreads in Hong Kong over Shut-down Mercantile Exchange
A close political ally of Hong Kong's chief executive has vowed to cooperate with an investigation into the shuttered Hong Kong Mercantile Exchange after the city's financial watchdog said it had alerted the police to "serious irregularities". - Reuters 05/11/13
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NUM Wage Demands Shock South Africa
The Chamber of Mines described the National Union of Mineworkers' (NUM's) demands for this year's wage talks as "incredibly steep", and an analyst warned that the NUM was continuing down the road of "labour suicide", as fuller details of the demands emerged. - Business Day at iAfrica 05/22/13
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Semi-purified Gold Bars May Find a Passage to India
The recent Reserve Bank of India (RBI) directive that banks can import gold on consignment basis for genuine exports has opened a door for the entry of gold dore bars, which have less than 95% gold content. Bullion traders say the refining of these impure gold bars will be a new line of business in India, and jewellers may also look at setting up refineries to ensure a steady supply of the metal. - Economic Times 05/21/13
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Johnson Matthey SCRT Technology
Johnson Matthey's SCRT® Technology, a combination Selective Catalytic Reduction (SCR) and continuously regenerating diesel particulate filter (DPF), has already shown its worth in vehicles and is now proving its value in stationary engines. - Platinum today 05/21/13
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Iron-platinum Alloys Could be New-generation Hard Drives
Meeting the demand for more data storage in smaller volumes means using materials made up of ever-smaller magnets, or nanomagnets. One promising material for a potential new generation of recording media is an alloy of iron and platinum with an ordered crystal structure. - University of California, Davis 05/21/13
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Platinum Buying Quickens as Gold Allure Diminishes
At a time when diminishing faith in gold is spurring investors to sell record amounts of the metal, demand for platinum and palladium is strengthening as mining companies curb supply. - Bloomberg 05/21/13
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India's Perilous Gold Stock Situation and $40 Premiums
Refusing to pay heed to the ongoing retailer supply shortage, the Indian government is determined to counter the country's vast gold imports with a fresh wave of curbs. - Mineweb 05/21/13
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Amplats to Mitigate Job Cuts After Talks With Government, Unions
Anglo American Platinum Ltd. (AMS), the biggest producer of the metal, labor unions and the government will resume negotiations with a state mediator over job cuts on May 24 after agreeing on steps to preserve employment, South Africa’s Department of Mineral Resources said. - Business Week 05/21/13
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