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Select gold up 118 per cent in just 12 months

BY ALEX DUNNIN | THURSDAY, 18 MAY 2006 11:41AM

Gold fever and the commodities boom has pushed the Select Gold Fund up a staggering 118 per cent in just the last 12 months.

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