GenevaLunch » gold http://genevalunch.com Community Newspaper Online Fri, 25 May 2012 22:00:00 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/ Copyright © GenevaLunch 2010 editor@genevalunch.com (GenevaLunch) editor@genevalunch.com (GenevaLunch) http://genevalunch.com/wp-content/plugins/podpress/images/powered_by_podpress.jpgGenevaLunchhttp://genevalunch.com 144 144 Community Newspaper Online GenevaLunch GenevaLunch editor@genevalunch.com no no Peruvian President accuses wildcat mining of mine collapsehttp://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/04/11/peruvian-president-accuses-wildcat-mining-of-mine-collapse/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/04/11/peruvian-president-accuses-wildcat-mining-of-mine-collapse/#comments Wed, 11 Apr 2012 12:19:21 +0000 Paula Dupraz http://genevalunch.com/?p=68859 GenevaLunch.com GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – Peruvian President Ollanta Humala says informal mining was responsible nine miners trapped in a copper and gold mine following the cave-in of a horizontal shaft 5 April. The collapse follows violent protests last month in the eastern jungle province of Madre de Dios against government reforms targeting wildcat mining. Prison terms were [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/04/11/peruvian-president-accuses-wildcat-mining-of-mine-collapse/feed/ 0 There’s gold in that Swiss river! or maybe a dream (update)http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/10/07/theres-gold-in-that-swiss-river-or-maybe-a-dream-update/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/10/07/theres-gold-in-that-swiss-river-or-maybe-a-dream-update/#comments Fri, 07 Oct 2011 14:49:29 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=62226 GenevaLunch.com GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – Blick magazine has shed some some light on the largest-ever chunk of gold found in Switzerland, reportedly found in the Tieche river near Crans-Montana by a 34-year-old German hiker in September. But the Valais cantonal geologist says maybe it’s a nugget someone lost: there’s no gold in that river. The gold nugget [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/10/07/theres-gold-in-that-swiss-river-or-maybe-a-dream-update/feed/ 0 Qaddafi April-May sale of 20% of Libyan gold paid salarieshttp://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/09/08/qaddafi-april-may-sale-of-20-of-libyan-gold-paid-salaries/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/09/08/qaddafi-april-may-sale-of-20-of-libyan-gold-paid-salaries/#comments Thu, 08 Sep 2011 15:09:38 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=61377 GenevaLunch.com TRIPOLI, LIBYA – The new governor of Libya’s central bank says the hunt is on for assets hidden around the world by the Qaddafi regime. He is cited by AFP as confirming 8 September rumours that former leader Muammar Qaddafi sold at least $1.7 billion in gold at discounted prices in April and May, saying [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/09/08/qaddafi-april-may-sale-of-20-of-libyan-gold-paid-salaries/feed/ 0 The curious case of Vietnamese gold’s impact on Swiss trade balancehttp://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/07/22/the-curious-case-of-vietnamese-golds-impact-on-swiss-trade-balance/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/07/22/the-curious-case-of-vietnamese-golds-impact-on-swiss-trade-balance/#comments Fri, 22 Jul 2011 11:33:52 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=60103 GenevaLunch.com BERN, SWITZERLAND – Deep in the trade figures published 20 July by the Swiss government is a note that imports were down largely because no gold was imported from Vietnam. Switzerland melts down the gold for use mainly as bullion, although some is used by the watch industry and increasingly, by the electronics industry. Switzerland [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/07/22/the-curious-case-of-vietnamese-golds-impact-on-swiss-trade-balance/feed/ 0 Swiss National Bank profits up in Q1 on dollarhttp://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/04/29/swiss-national-bank-profits-up-in-q1-on-dollar/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/04/29/swiss-national-bank-profits-up-in-q1-on-dollar/#comments Fri, 29 Apr 2011 10:03:09 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=57102 GenevaLunch.com Zurich, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – A net profit of CHF1.9 billion for the first three months of 2011 at The Swiss National Bank was due largely to currency fluctuations, the central bank said Friday 29 April. The net result from foreign currency positions was CHF1.6 billion, while losses from Swiss franc holdings were CHF106 million. Euro [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/04/29/swiss-national-bank-profits-up-in-q1-on-dollar/feed/ 3 Tunisia’s Geneva diaspora joins others in street protestshttp://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/01/17/tunisias-geneva-diaspora-joins-others-in-street-protests/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/01/17/tunisias-geneva-diaspora-joins-others-in-street-protests/#comments Mon, 17 Jan 2011 21:40:51 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=52474 GenevaLunch.com Geneva, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – The protests were calm compared to those in the streets of Tunis over the weekend, but Geneva’s Tunisians also took to the streets to call for more freedom. Photographer Rohit Acharya caught them as they marched from the Rue du Marché across the Mont Blanc bridge (more images on flickr) in [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/01/17/tunisias-geneva-diaspora-joins-others-in-street-protests/feed/ 0 Swiss central bank’s currency loss spares cantons, federal gov’t (update)http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/01/17/swiss-central-banks-currency-loss-spares-cantons-federal-govt-update/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/01/17/swiss-central-banks-currency-loss-spares-cantons-federal-govt-update/#comments Mon, 17 Jan 2011 08:24:41 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=52450 GenevaLunch.com Losses in future years could touch shareholder gov’ts budgets Update 11:45  Zurich, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – The Swiss National Bank (SNB) is likely to post a CHF21 billion loss for 2010 as the result of exchange rate losses of CHF26m, it announced Friday. But the federal government and cantons will receive their expected share of profits [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/01/17/swiss-central-banks-currency-loss-spares-cantons-federal-govt-update/feed/ 0 Gold thieves get 7 to 22 years, as value of theft nearly tripleshttp://genevalunch.com/blog/2010/12/15/gold-thieves-get-7-to-22-years-as-value-of-theft-nearly-triples/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2010/12/15/gold-thieves-get-7-to-22-years-as-value-of-theft-nearly-triples/#comments Wed, 15 Dec 2010 08:43:40 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=51208 GenevaLunch.com Bouches-du-Rhône, France (GenevaLunch) - The value of their theft has risen from CHF8 million to CHF21m in the six years since a group of men stole 668 kg of gold, thanks to the soaring gld market, according to TSR. The haul has never been found. The five men, from Corsica, are accused of stealing the [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2010/12/15/gold-thieves-get-7-to-22-years-as-value-of-theft-nearly-triples/feed/ 0 Italian police uncover gold smuggling ringhttp://genevalunch.com/blog/2010/10/18/italian-police-uncover-gold-smuggling-ring/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2010/10/18/italian-police-uncover-gold-smuggling-ring/#comments Mon, 18 Oct 2010 13:37:17 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=48750 GenevaLunch.com Lake Como, Italy (GenevaLunch) – Italy’s financial police have seized 150kg of gold, according to an ats agency report, but they also arrested 30 people as they uncovered a gold smuggling ring between Italy and Switzerland. The group appears to have smuggled more than 5 tons of gold, mainly to gold-working factories in northern Italy, [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2010/10/18/italian-police-uncover-gold-smuggling-ring/feed/ 0 Huge lithium, other mineral reserves found in Afghanistanhttp://genevalunch.com/blog/2010/06/14/huge-lithium-other-mineral-reserves-found-in-afghanistan/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2010/06/14/huge-lithium-other-mineral-reserves-found-in-afghanistan/#comments Mon, 14 Jun 2010 11:43:03 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=43486 GenevaLunch.com US officials have told the New York Times that Afghanistan contains huge reserves of several minerals, including iron, copper, cobalt, gold and “critical industrial metals like lithium”. The US Geological Survey began carrying out studies in 2006, working with the US military and using old Russian maps and have found evidence of enough veins to [...]

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