U.S. markets rose on Friday after positive economic reports that boosted investor sentiment to recover losses from the previous session, with benchmark indexes set to record their fourth straight week of gains and close at another set of record highs. 

Gold prices on the Comex continued to slide Friday, with the yellow metal trading down for the seventh consecutive session, the commodity’s most protracted series of losses since early 2009. The most active market, gold for June delivery, dropped as low as $1357.60 per ounce in intraday trading, from an open of $1385.20, shedding almost two per cent.

Notwithstanding the controversy, the IPO was the biggest in Internet history. Facebook raised $16 billion, also ranking it as the third highest IPO in U.S. history.  It's a feat beyond what Zuckerberg, who claims he never wanted to actually run a company in the first place, ever dreamed.

Canadian shares gained a second day as energy producers climbed after positive economic reports from the U.S., the country's largest trading partner, indicated economic growth is gaining momentum, outweighing declines in mining stocks. The resource-heavy benchmark Standard & Poor’s/TSX Composite Index (TSE:OSPTX) added 0.4 percent to 12,557.31 at 12:33 p.m. in Toronto on Friday. Nine of ten groups gained.

Beeindruckende Bohrungsergebnisse in Amulsar erhärten Lydians Einschätzung des Potenzials der Goldmine.

London Mining befindet sich momentan in einer guten Position: die Produktionssteigerung des Marampa Eisenerzprojektes in Sierra Leone verläuft nach Plan und das Unternehmen befindet sich in Gesprächen mit potenziellen Partnern betreffs Marampa und dem nächsten grossen Einenerzprojekt, Isua in Grönland.

Die Umwelbehörden in Armenien haben nun den den geplanten Tagebau des Amulsar Goldprojektes genehmigt sowie den geplanten Standort der Abraumhalde. 

South Boulder Mines meldete, dass die Ergebnisse der jüngsten Erweiterungsbohrungen auf dem Colluli Kalisalz-Projekt in Eritrea erneut das Potenzial bestätigt haben, die Ressource zu vergrössern und die Wirtschaftlichkeit des Projektes zu verbessern.