US Dollar Rally Enters Fifth Week and Impacts Miners and Caterpillar

$FB - Down 4.4% from last Friday! Facebook Inc (FB) CEO Can’t Wait For Google Glass Value Walk

$ABX - Down 3.4% this week. Less than Facebook. Less than other miners and Caterpillar. 52-week low of 30.14 set 2/22/2013.  Ex-Div Reminder for Barrick Gold Corp Tuesday 2/26/2013 Forbes

$NEM - Down 6.6% this week. 52-week low of 40.44 set 2/21/2013.   Newmont Mining Beats Estimates; Raises Dividend (NEM) Dividend.com   "We return more cash per share and offer more leverage in our dividend policy than any company in the gold industry." Investor Relations Newmont

$FCX - Down 8.6% this week.  A Perfect Storm Brewing For Copper Mining Stocks Seeking Alpha

$RIOM - Down 7.2% this week. Rio Alto Mining (RIOM) Shares Enter Oversold Territory Forbes

$CAT  - Down 4.4% this week   Caterpillar Sales Down 4% in 3 Months to End of January 4-Traders.com

Markets:

30-Year US Treasury Bond - 3.155 down from 3.179 last week. 2 Million Homeowners No Longer Underwater on Mortgage: Zillow
US Dollar Index - 81.46 up from last week. US Dollar Rally Enters Fifth Week - What Could Derail It? DailyFX
Gold - 1,581.5 down from 1,610 last week. METALS OUTLOOK: Gold Market To Eye Italian Elections, Bernanke, Data, Sequestration Kitco

Copper - 3.533 down from 3.73 last week.  Focus: Copper open interest falling away. Kitco.
Oil - 93.36 down from 96.08 last week. Crude Oil Deluge to Hit U.S. Gulf Coast Motley Fool

Northern Peru Projects and Exploration:

Sulliden Gold C$0.86 down from C$0.88 last week.

Tartisan Resources C$0.13 same as last week.

Candente Gold   C$0.12 up from C$0.10 last week. 

New Demensions Resources...Cenpa project on Equador border. See map
Sienna Gold C$0.255 down from C$0.295 last week.
Lupaka Gold C$0.35
Igor Project and the Callanquitas Discovery

Privately held companies:

Comarsa... FACEBOOK/COMARSA $FB

Disclosure: I intend to focus on selected gold mines in Northern Peru. This week I have positions in Barrick and Facebook.  I prepared this article myself, and linked it to third-party articles and information published on the internet. I am not receiving compensation for this article other than from Google Adsense, my website www.leansupplier.com and the sale of my book The Lean Supplier and Google maps. I have no business relationship with any company whose stock is mentioned in this article.