Daily Dispatches

12:56p ET Tuesday, February 27, 2001

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

There's big news in gold today.

First, a story from the Mining Web/MoneyWeb people:

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Anglogold bidding for Gold Fields

By Tim Wood
Posted: 02/27/2001
04:00:00 PM
Miningweb 1997-2001

--- Developing World Exclusive ---
Third update - 11h45 EST.

NEW YORK -- Miningweb learnt late on Friday that Anglogold was still

11:05p ET Sunday, February 25, 2001

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

An Australian with an interest in gold who follows
GATA's work and dispatches, Sid Reynolds, recently
wrote to AngloGold's marketing director, Kelvin
Williams, for elaboration about Williams' criticism of
GATA at the Indaba 2001 gold conference in Cape Town,
South Africa. (You may recall that, during the
conference, I posted to you the full text of Williams'

By Bill Murphy, Chairman
Gold Anti-Trust Action Committee Inc.
February 25, 2001

During my recent visit to South Africa, it was
suggested that it might be possible to organize a
meeting of the mining ministers of the African gold-
producing countries, at which the Gold Anti-Trust Action
Committee could convey its findings about the
manipulation of the gold market.

It is hard to imagine an issue of greater importance to

Gold producers divided on hedging

By Adrienne Roberts
The Financial Times
February 21, 2001

In any other industry, the closing out of a small hedge
position would attract little interest. It would not be
considered worth a public announcement, nor would it
push up a company's share price. Only in the gold
industry is hedging such a politically charged issue.

When Gold Fields, South Africa's second largest gold