Zonte Metals acquires iron oxide copper gold project

Vancouver miner ups output at Central American project 20% to 320,000 tonnes copper a year as it overhauls construction plans for $6.4 billion mine acquired last year.

Expects sales and revenues to be similar to 2013 as sales to the resource industry decline modestly.

Silver is also up .31% to $19.98 per ounce.

A bad week for markets as Thursday and Friday saw heavy heavy selling and we have now broken a very bearish pattern.

But you can't rhyme it.

By December, the most recent month for which statistics are available, the US dollar Fiat Money Quantity (FMQ) had grown to $12.48 trillion.

Underlying worries are China and the taper.

Lemieux believes that with the wheat separated from the chaff over the past tumultuous year, the truly strong companies have emerged. But you may be surprised by the jurisdictions he predicts will come to life in 2014.

CEO calls it a 'conservative approach.'