IN the United States, ads promising high prices for gold are regular fodder for late-night television spots, while buyers are setting up tables at shopping malls or hosting gold-buying gatherings at private homes — like recession-era Tupperware parties.
After next weekend's clash with Dragons, they host Gold Coast, are on the road against the Wests Tigers, travel to New Zealand to take on the Warriors, then finish with home matches against Melbourne and South Sydney.
Alex Marshall and Paul Foster's bowls win in the men's pairs event and para-athlete Libby Clegg's victory in the T12 100m took the hosts' gold tally to 13 - two more than their previous best at Melbourne 2006.
As the RRB is fault-bounded terrane boundary and hosts numerous mafic intrusions, it was a regional zone of synvolcanic and syntectonic paleo-permeability and, therefore, has potential for hosting orogenic gold and volcanogenic massive sulfide (VMS) deposits.
The main host of gold in this region is low-sulfide, quartz vein-hosted (i.e., "lode") deposits, which are also enriched in As [2].
FOR THE RECORD: Oscar host: The Gold Standard column in the Aug. 3 Calendar section about the choice of Ellen DeGeneres to host the Academy Awards show next year referred to Seth MacFarlane as having hosted last year's Oscar telecast.
In July (7 to 28), the regional confederation hosts the Gold Cup, with all the games again scheduled to be played in the United States.
When Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed, president of the United Arab Emirates, arrived for a state visit last April, for example, he brought for his host a gold jewelled frame set on a jewelled ostrich egg.
To mitigate the emotional toll, a handful of pawnshops and jewelers are playing host to gold parties, where a combination of alcohol, food and banter has transformed a cold financial transaction into something resembling happy hour.
