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• Friday, December 06, 2013
  Dow lower as growth accelerates
  

  The U.S. economy is revving with stronger than expected economic data points to a tapering by the U.S. Fed earlier than expected, in fact very soon.  So U.S. stocks fell for a fifth straight session on the pullback in tapering arriving.  Atlanta Fed president said that it is time to put tapering on the table. The ASX SPI 200 is off 18 points to 5193.

• Thursday, December 05, 2013
  Australia’s All Ords in a spin, Qantas down 11.2%
  

  Federal Reserve stimulus tapering fears have re-emerged, sending the All Ords down 1.3% to 5,196.9 points. The Shanghai Stock Exchange Composite Index is down 0.11% to 2,249.35 points while in pre-open markets the Dow-mini is down 7 points to 15,879.  Banks were hit hard as were shares in Qantas.

• Thursday, December 05, 2013
  Syrah Resources: high-grade graphite from infill drilling, Balama East
  

  Syrah's infill drilling results today have confirmed further very wide zones of high grade graphite and vanadium mineralisation at Balama East, starting near surface. More results are pending, along with assays from Mualia, which will be followed by a resource upgrade.

• Thursday, December 05, 2013
  Greenland Minerals and Energy completes Kvanefjeld process engineering
  

  Metallurgical flowsheets for both the mineral concentrator and the refinery for the company’s Kvanefjeld multi-element project in Greenland have been finalised and it is now focused on reducing the risk of the refinery flowsheet with continuous pilot plant testwork.

• Thursday, December 05, 2013
  KGL Resources' massive sulphides intercept receives 'Drill hole of the Day'
  

  KGL Resources' (ASX: KGL) yesterday delivered some impressive massive sulphides from the Jervois project in the Northern Territory, and received a 'Drill hole of the Day' note from UBS Securities and distributed by Bell Potter.

• Wednesday, December 04, 2013
  Phoenix Gold delivers 109m at 1.8g/t gold near surface at Castle Hill
  

  Phoenix Gold's aggressive drilling program in the WA Goldfields continues to pay dividends, with the latest results demonstrating the depth potential below current resource. Gold mineralisation has now been extended 200 metres below the previous drilling - with grades increasing at depth. The Castle Hill Stage 1 open cut reserve study is due on the next month.

• Wednesday, December 04, 2013
  Base Resources in milestone first ilmenite and rutile production at Kwale
  

  Base will now ramp up processing rates at its Kwale mineral sands project in Kenya to build inventories of rutile and Ilmenite ahead of bulk shipments in January 2014. Construction of the zircon circuit is in its final stages with commissioning expected during January.

• Wednesday, December 04, 2013
  KGL Resources hits heights with high grade massive sulphides at Jervois
  

  KGL Resources has further built a case for a significant resource upgrade at Jervois, after intersecting the Copper Equivalent of 18 metres at 10.3% copper in resource extension drilling. Drilling is ongoing at depth and along strike. Shares in KGL Resources are expected to open firmer following the results.

• Wednesday, December 04, 2013
  Po Valley Energy doubles gas flow from Gradizza-1 well
  

  Rigless testing of the Gradizza-1 well in Italy has more than doubled flow rates to 15,000 standard cubic metres per day from the 7,000scm/d from initial testing. This is due to continued clean-up of the well and reduction of formation damage.

• Wednesday, December 04, 2013
  Shree Minerals increases iron ore reserves at Nelson Bay River project
  

  New Australian iron ore producer Shree Minerals has increased defined Reserves at Nelson Bay River mine in Tasmania from recent drilling program. This saw an upgrade of the resource and an improved Mine Plan where production of Direct Shipping Ore operations has comenced with first shipping of iron ore due last week of December, first week of January.

• Tuesday, December 03, 2013
  Jatenergy closes Indonesian coal profit share agreement with Chapmans
  

  With the profit sharing agreement now finalised with Chapmans, Jatenergy will now proceed with reworking the Jongkang project in East Kalimantan, Indonesia, into a higher production facility with a monthly production target of 20,000 tonnes per month. With this we calculate it could be worth $600k to $720K in profit per year to Jatenergy.

• Tuesday, December 03, 2013
  Aspire Mining signs up Russian customers for Ovoot coking coal
  

  With two Memoranda of Understanding signed for a further 1.3Mtpa of coking coal, Aspire Mining has increased total potential orders for coking coal from its Ovoot Project in Mongolia up to 6.9Mtpa. It has also signed agreements to access 2Mtpa of Russian rail and port capacity which attests to the growing demand for products from Ovoot.