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Where is the gold price?

Different views of investors about the direction the course for the price of gold in the future, after having reached its highest level ever.


At the end of last week - when it landed prices of goods and rumored about the possibility of the end of the boom in commodity prices present - it was reported that the international investor George Soros - who runs a hedge fund large, which could raise $ 1.1 billion Menen speculation on the pound sterling in 1992 - sold large quantities of gold and silver by the stockpiling them in the past three years, having made a profit of 65%.


The John Paulson - who also runs a hedge fund and was able to raise more than $ 20 billion of speculation in the U.S. real estate market - has told investors last week that he still invests his own money in gold.


Came the views of Soros and Paulson at a time when the price of gold fell last week by 1.6%, and the price of silver fell by 29%, the biggest drop in 35 years.


It was not a surprise to the decline in gold Soros who predicted a decline because of what he called the bubble that would be inflicted on the yellow metal.


But Paulson predicted higher gold price of 1487 dollars an ounce today to four thousand dollars in the past three or five years.


The British newspaper The Guardian that this divergence of views on the price of gold gives an idea of ​​the extent of uncertainty surrounding the precious metals and other commodities, at least in the short term.


She added that the price of gold and other commodity prices have risen in recent months with rising inflation and falling interest rates, which made investors shy of U.S. bonds and other assets yielding weak to get higher returns.


In addition to falling interest rates, investors turned to other commodities because of falling U.S. dollar exchange rate which is assessed on the basis of these commodities, which make it cheaper for investors from outside the dollar zone.


Added to increase the demand for goods by manufacturers in China with the economic recovery in the United States and Europe.


Therefore prices of gold and silver, cocoa and coffee to record levels in recent weeks, prompting speculation that the end of this climb.
Experts differ on whether prices will continue to rise. According to Deputy Head of Economic Affairs of the Corporation Scotia Capital in Toronto, Derek Holt said that the growth of markets in emerging economies will continue, and that will put pressure on commodity prices.


And expected high oil prices, coffee, copper, cocoa and gold to at least double in the next twenty years.

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Crown Butte Mines, Inc. wants to develop its New World gold mine deposit located near Yellowstone National Park. The proposed mine is located almost entirely on private property about 3 miles east of the northeast corner of Yellowstone National Park and next to the Absaroka-Beartooth Wilderness area. The New World Mine Project would mine an estimated 1,800 tons of gold/silver/copper ore per day (500,000 tons annually), valued at an estimated $800 million over a 10-15 year period. The project would include an underground mine, an ore processing mill, a tailings pond, a waste rock storage site, access roads, a work camp and transmission lines. A draft environmental impact statement (EIS), required under both NEPA and the Montana Environmental Policy Act, is in the final months of a three-year preparation.
The project has stirred controversy because of its possible environmental impacts. Environmental groups oppose the project because of the potential for damage to water, recreational assets and wildlife in the area, and in particular, to Yellowstone Park itself. Crown Butte maintains it would employ "state-of-the-art" technology to contain waste in a proposed 106-acre tailings pond. Opponents of the project fear that the tailings pond may fail in the future due to earthquakes, avalanches or other events, leading to acid mine drainage. Several permits from the federal and state level are required to operate the mine and mill. The issuing agencies could approve the mine plan, approve the plan with stipulations, or deny the permit. Without the necessary permits, mine development could not go forward.
Environmentalists have received support from two highly visible events. In July 1995, the President called for a moratorium on mine patents and new claims on federal lands in the area around the mine site. In December 1995, the United Nations World Heritage Committee declared the Yellowstone National Park "in danger" because of the New World mine proposal, and other activities in the area. In the 104th Congress, a Senate proposal (S. 1737) would permanently withdraw from location under the Mining Law 19,000 acres, and affect 5,000 additional acres of federal lands near the Crown Butte mine site. A House bill (H.R. 1846) would withdraw lands upstream from the Park. None of these measures would affect the New World Mine directly, but might affect the economics of the project by precluding future expansion.

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