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Chicago says goodbye to CME's last commodity trading pits

Section: Daily Dispatches

By Isis Almeida and Kim Chipman
Bloomberg News
Tuesday, May 4, 2021

It's the end of an era for open-outcry commodities trading, made famous by the film "Trading Places" with Eddie Murphy and Dan Aykroyd.

The CME Group Inc. said today that its last few remaining pits in Chicago, where agricultural commodities options traders still yelled their bids, will close permanently. Futures transactions had already been fully replaced by electronic trading, while options pits had been active until March 2020, when Covid-19 measures forced them to be closed. ...

... For the remainder of the report:

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-05-05/chicago-says-goodbye-...

 


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Asante Gold C$5 Million Placement Is Oversubscribed
and Another C$2 Million Is Accepted;
Drilling Finds 7.47 g/t Gold over 30 Meters

Company Announcement
Monday, March 22, 2021

VANCOUVER, British Columbia, Canada -- Asante Gold Corp. (CSE:ASE, Frankfurt: 1A9, U.S. OTC:ASGOF) announces that assays have been received for the first hole of a three-hole geotechnical drill program at our Kubi Gold project in Ghana. 

DDHK21-001 was collared approximately 100 meters to the north of the Kubi Pit, near the middle of the 1Kubi Main Mineral Resource. On this section gold mineralization has been previously outlined to a depth of 450 meters. The gold is free milling and occurs within a near vertical 1-kilometer by 1-meter to 15-meter-thick shear-bounded "garnet" zone. 

Gold is associated with up to 30% garnet and 15% sulfide mineralization and as coarse gold in late quartz veins.

The drilling has confirmed typical Kubi Main Zone gold mineralization.

-- 30 meters grading 7.47 g/t gold (true width estimated at 7.5 meters), including:

-- 14.31 g/t over 10 meters.

-- 5.69 g/t over 9.0 meters.

-- 10.75 g/t over 16 meters.

Given the presence of visible gold and the numerous high assays received, samples have been resubmitted for screened metallics assays, which give more exact results when coarse gold is present. Further results will be announced as received. ...

... For the remainder of the announcement:

https://www.asantegold.com/news/cad-5-million-placement-oversubscribed-a...


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