IDEX Online Research: U.S. Jewelry Sales Up Sharply in November

Jewelry demand showed a significant recovery in November 2009 compared to the same month a year ago. The improvement in mall traffic coupled with consumers loosening their purse strings has benefited jewelers with increased consumer spending in the first month of the all-important holiday selling season.

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  1. Vancouver, B.C. – January 20, 2010 – The Association for Mineral Exploration British Columbia (AME BC) in keeping with its strong commitment to health and safety today congratulated the recipients of the David Barr Award, Safe Day Everyday Gold Award, and Safe Day Everyday Award at the Health & Safety Awards Breakfast at Mineral Exploration Roundup 2010. The breakfast was the 27th annual health and safety awards ceremony hosted by AME BC.

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  3. SUEK, Russia’s top steam coal producer, has picked five investment banks to handle a London initial public offering (IPO) in the second quarter, people familiar with the matter said on Thursday.

  4. Don L. Blankenship, the chief executive of the coal giant Massey Energy, has been called a lot of things by those who oppose his industry in all its manifestations — from “an affront to common democracy” to simply “evil.”

  5. A mineral deposit that matter is a deposit that helps you make money regardless of the economic cycle – has a long life and it has an impact on the global supply. Supply-demand gaps are going to develop for most of the metals in the next 5-30 years and we need to be smart with our exploration money and spend them only on projects that matter.

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  7. David Ebner, Globe and Mail A major new oil sands project by international players ConocoPhillips Co. COP-N and Total SA is the latest sign of recovery in northern Alberta, a driver of the Canadian economy that had been waylaid

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  13. European shares fell sharply for a second day on Thursday with banks sliding, miners suffering from lower metals prices and reports they face higher taxes, and after U.S. data cast further doubt on the economic recovery. The FTSEurofirst 300 index of top

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