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Will financial journalists ever wonder WHY gold has underperformed?
4:21p ET Friday, July 15, 2011
Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:
From Jack Farchy's story in Wednesday's Financial Times, headlined "QE3 Talk Pushes Gold to Nominal Record" (http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/d11d6146-ad43-11e0-a24e-00144feabdc0.html):
"Gold also hit fresh records when denominated in euros, sterling, and rand. Adjusted for inflation, however, it remained below its 1980 peak, which translates to about $2,400 in today's money."
Why does the Financial Times have no curiosity about gold's so badly failing as an inflation hedge over the last 30 years, failing by 50 percent or more? Here the gold price suppression scheme stares journalists in the face and yet they don't see it.
Of course an explanation for this failure is readily available from GATA and others: central bank dishoarding and leasing of gold and particularly the surreptitious underwriting by central banks of "paper gold," the creation of a vast supply of imaginary gold for which delivery is never taken, the development of a fractional-reserve gold banking system precisely to cripple gold's usefulness as a hedge against the inflation created by central banks and to rob gold of its traditional influence on interest rates and the value of government bonds.
A lot of this is spelled out in the "Documentation" section of GATA's Internet site:
http://www.gata.org/taxonomy/term/21
But while you can lead a journalist to the facts, you can't make him think.
CHRIS POWELL, Secretary/Treasurer
Gold Anti-Trust Action Committee Inc.
Golden Phoenix Q2 2011 Conference Call Posted at Company Internet Site
The second quarter 2011 conference call of Golden Phoenix Minerals Inc. (GPXM) has been posted at the company Internet site for immediate playback. The call includes updates on the start of gold production at the company's Mineral Ridge gold project in Nevada, the letter of intent to acquire the Santa Rosa gold mine in Panama, and the company's due-diligence efforts to secure a senior stock exchange listing.
The conference call is 18 minutes long and you download an mp3 of it here:
http://www.goldenphoenix.us/audio/GPXMCC071211.mp3
Or play back the call here:
http://goldenphoenix.us/conferencecalls/
Golden Phoenix is a U.S. mining company with international exposure to gold, silver, and strategic metals. The company's business model combines project generation and royalty mining that offers the potential for exploration upside, coupled with the backing of production and future royalty streams. View company videos here:
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Prophecy (TSXV: PCY) Secures Russian Far East Seaport Allocation
and Updates Ulaan Ovoo Mine Production
Company Press Release, June 14, 2011
VANCOUVER, British Columbia -- Prophecy Coal Corp. TSX-V: PCY)(OTCQX: PRPCF)(Frankfurt: 1P2) has arranged with the Port of Sovgavan in the State of Khabarovsk, Russia, so the company will have initial access to port allocation of 25,000 tonnes of coal per month starting this month, potentially expandable to 50,000 tonnes per month, representing 300,000 to 600,000 tonnes annually. Prophecy also will be assigned a coal storage area at the port.
This arrangement provides Prophecy's Ulaan Ovoo thermal coal mine with immediate access to the Asian seaborne export coal markets. Sovgavan is strategically located on the seaboard of the Russian Far East. The port is privately owned and can accommodate seagoing vessels of up to 160 meters in length, with the depth of loading site of 9.5 meters. The port has loading capacity of 6,000 tonnes per day and direct connections to Trans-Siberian railroads and uncongested Russian state highways.
Securing the port opens Prophecy to a significant number of coal buyers, and the company is placing top priority to conclude rail transport within Russia and coal offtake contracts.
Prophecy's Ulaan Ovoo mine commenced production in 2011. So far this year the mine has produced 200,000 tonnes of coal, which are being stockpiled. The average quality is 4,200 kcal/kg NAR with 5 percent ash and 0.5 percent sulphur. Those attributes compare favorably to the coal being purchased by local Russian and Mongolian power plants.
For the complete company statement, please visit:
http://www.prophecycoal.com/news_2011_jun14_Prophecy_Secures_Russian_Sea...
