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Indian gold imports said to jump to year's high in November

Section: Daily Dispatches

By Shruti Srivastava and Swansy Afonso
Bloomberg News
Monday, December 12, 2016

Gold imports by India, the second-biggest consumer, are said to have climbed 10 percent in November to the highest this year, according to a person familiar with provisional Finance Ministry data. Demand increased as jewelers built up stockpiles for the marriage season, a trade group said.

Overseas purchases rose to 111 metric tons from 101 tons a year earlier, the person said, asking not to be identified as the data aren't public. For the 11 months through November, shipments slumped 43 percent to 513.9 tons from a year earlier, according to provisional ministry data compiled by Bloomberg. Finance Ministry spokesman D. S. Malik declined to comment on the data. ...

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https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-12-12/indian-gold-imports-s...



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Canadian Government Issues Key Water License
for Seabridge Gold's KSM Project in British Columbia

Company Announcement
Monday, November 21, 2016

TORONTO -- Seabridge Gold Inc. (TSX: SEA) (NYSE:SA) announced today it has received a license from the Government of Canada required for the construction, operation, and maintenance of the water storage facility and associated ancillary water works at its 100 percent-owned KSM Project in northwestern British Columbia.

The license, as authorized within the International Rivers Improvement Act, regulates all structures and activities situated on transboundary waters shared with the United States that have the potential to affect water quality and quantity. The Water storage facility and its ancillary water works (water diversion ditches and tunnels) are the primary water management control systems for the KSM Project. These facilities separate water that has not contacted mined material from so-called contact water originating from disturbed areas of the mine site and then contain the contact water prior to treatment and eventual release to the receiving environment.

These facilities are situated on Mitchell and Sulphurets creeks, tributaries of the transboundary Unuk River system that flows into Alaska. The license was granted for a term of 25 years under the International Rivers Improvements Regulations as administered by Environment and Climate Change Canada. ...

... For the remainder of the announcement:

http://seabridgegold.net/News/Article/642/federal-government-issues-key-...



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