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New York spot gold reclaimed $43.40 Thursday, reaching $4,477.10 by its afternoon catnap. The TSX Venture Exchange added 15.56 points to 1,021 while the TSX gold index gained 16.66 points to 857.73. Most precious metals miners moved higher. Aris Mining Corp. (ARIS) added 37 cents to $23.79 on 735,000 shares today, while Meridian Mining PLC (MNO) gained four cents to $1.92 on 1.51 million shares.Lundin Gold Inc. (LUG), on the other hand, fell $1.83 to $84.86 on 903,000 shares.

Keith Boyle and Melissa Render's -- but more so Eric Sprott's -- New Found Gold Corp. (NFG) lost four cents to $2.62 on 3.36 million shares. The company cheers that it is expanding its $44-million fully financed work program at its Queensway project in north-central Newfoundland. The effort will include 90,000 metres of drilling, along with surface exploration in key areas across the 220,000-hectare project. (That is a modest effort by the company's earlier standards. New Found has been a frantic driller since it went public seven years ago -- its crews may have been Swiss cheese makers in a previous life.)

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