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New York spot gold rose $3.50 to $2,917.70 on Wednesday. The TSX Venture Exchange jumped 13.23 points to 629.86 while the TSX gold index added 7.82 points to 408.26. Most Canadian gold miners advanced today. Taseko Mines Ltd. (TKO) added 24 cents to $3.21 on 2.68 million shares and Endeavour Silver Corp. (EDR) added 37 cents to $5.63 on 1.6 million shares, both in silence. Decliners were few, but Equinox Gold Corp. (EQX) lost ground again today, losing 13 cents to $9.14 on 11.92 million shares. Calibre Mining Corp. (CXB), now joined at the hip with Equinox thanks to a planned merger of the two companies, fell six cents to $2.79 on 37.48 million shares.

Jon Gilligan's Liberty Gold Corp. (LGD) is cheering "two major milestones" reached at its Black Pine oxide gold project in Idaho. The first promotional mile marker is the "formal submission of the draft Black Pine mine plan." (In the bureaucratic world where paper moves at the speed of molasses in winter, there may well be a draft submission of a formal plan down the road.) The second milestone is a memorandum of understanding between the company and the Idaho government to "facilitate the coordination of the entire mine permitting process" -- heat the molasses in other words.

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