In Ecuador Turner and Ecclestone recommend Aurelian Resources, a Canadian gold, silver and base metals exploration company that controls 235, 000 acres of mining concessions.

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However, the losses in platinum so far Wednesday exceed that of gold, silver and the base metals.

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Examples of these resources include oil, natural gas, precious metals (particularly gold and silver), base metals such as copper and nickel, and other resources such as diamonds, coal, lumber and even water.

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They will be minted in gold, silver, bronze and base metals.

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McEwen said the company has a large resource base of 7 million ounces of gold, 230 million ounces of silver and 18.5 billion pounds of copper, the latter through the Los Azules copper project in Argentina.

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As of late morning in New York, all four of the precious metals and all six of the base metals were sharply lower, with losses around 1.5% or more for silver, platinum, palladium, copper, nickel and tin.

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And when its aluminium coating is replaced with silver in a year or two's time (a huge vacuum-chamber housed at the telescope's base will be used to deposit metallic vapour on to the mirror's reflecting surface), it will be able to see into the infra-red with equal clarity, opening up a much neglected area of astronomy.

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