"It was only 50 years old, and a lot of people still remembered Denver as a gold camp, " Convery says.

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If these kept melting the way they had for six weeks, we joked, our retirement homes might be like the foul-smelling tents at Camp Gold.

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Carlos Sanchez, director of asset management with CPM Group, is in the camp of gold rising if the wrangling continues.

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They say they crossed the Sahara on foot, but many cruise the camp decked in gold chains, designer clothes and mobile phones.

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Family members have mounted a constant vigil in a tent city -- dubbed Camp Hope -- outside the copper and gold mine in the Chilean desert.

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Conversely, this camp has suggested resolution could mean less buying of gold.

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There's a good atmosphere in the camp, and we're ready to win some gold medals.

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Sites include an old camp and a cemetery for miners who came to British Columbia during the 1858 Gold Rush.

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Gold oscillated between risk-asset and safe haven, ending the year more in the former than the latter camp.

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