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James Turk: Even Russia has leased out most of its gold reserves

Section: Daily Dispatches

7:48p ET Monday, November 28, 2005

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

Two major gold price monitoring Internet
sites, Kitco and Ino, report that gold
broke the $500 barrier at 7:30 p.m. U.S.
Eastern time tonight:

http://www.kitco.com/

http://quotes.ino.com/chart/?s=FOREX_XAUUSDO

Tan Range Exploration CEO Jim Sinclair

China copper trader Liu may be scapegoat for weak risk controls

Section: Daily Dispatches

By James Turk
GoldMoney.com
Monday, November 29, 2005

The following news agency report about Russia's gold reserves
contains interesting information.

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By Peter Lavelle
RIA Novosti News Agency
Monday, November 28, 2005

http://en.rian.ru/russia/20051128/42241821.html

MOSCOW -- The Central Bank may increase the weighting of gold in its

Brown''s gold sale losses pile up as bullion price surges

Section: Daily Dispatches

By Le-Min Lim
Bloomberg News Service
Monday, November 28, 2005

http://quote.bloomberg.com/apps/news?
pid=10000006&sid=a1x1y3nvHDuU&refer=home

HONG KONG -- Liu Qibing, the Chinese copper trader whose wrong-way
bets left his government with an estimated $300 million in losses,
scored 90 out of 100 in a course on international investing at Wuhan

U.S. Treasury declines to accuse China of manipulating currency

Section: Daily Dispatches

By Bill Jamieson
The Scotsman, Edinburgh
Monday, November 28, 2005

http://business.scotsman.com/index.cfm?id=2313142005

Higher still and higher climbs the price of gold. It closed up late
on Friday at $495.70 an ounce in London and was even higher in Hong
Kong.

Since the start of the month, the precious metal has gained almost 9

No-confidence vote topples Canadian government; election likely Jan. 23

Section: Daily Dispatches

By Glenn Somerville
Reuters
Monday, November 28, 2005

http://today.reuters.com/business/newsarticle.aspx?
type=tnBusinessNews&storyID=nN28146785&imageid=&cap=

WASHINGTON -- The U.S. Treasury on Monday declined to name China a
currency manipulator, despite the demands of many U.S. lawmakers,
but served notice that it will keep pressuring Beijing to let its

Newmont president sees gold at $525 early next year, $1,000 in 5 to 7 years

Section: Daily Dispatches

1:05p ET Saturday, November 26, 2005

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

GATA will have a part in the 2006 Vancouver Resource
Investment Conference, sponsored by Cambridge House
International and held Sunday and Monday, January 22
and 23, 2006, at the Vancouver Convention and
Exhibition Centre.

More than 230 mining and resource exploration
companies will be exhibiting, and among the speakers

Newmont acknowledges considering counterbid for Placer Dome

Section: Daily Dispatches

Newmont Forecasts Gold to Rise
Above $1,000 on Asian Demand

By Miriam Steffens
Bloomberg News Service
Sunday, November 27, 2005

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?
pid=10000080&sid=aotpaNV5Qtpw&refer=asia

SYDNEY -- Newmont Mining Corp., the world's largest producer of
gold, says the price of the precious metal may rise to more than

Australia is cleaning out the gold vault; do you want a piece?

Section: Daily Dispatches

Newmont Mining May Make Bid for Placer

By The Associated Press
Sunday, November 27, 2005

http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/051127/australia_canada_placer_dome.html?.v=5

MELBOURNE, Australia -- Newmont Mining Corp. President Pierre
Lassonde confirmed Sunday that the world's largest gold producer is
considering making a rival bid for Canadian takeover target Placer

New York Post''s John Crudele is looking for your questions

Section: Daily Dispatches

11:55a ET Sunday, November 27, 2005

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

Having gotten rid of Australia's national gold
reserves at historic low prices just before the
gold price turned up, the Reserve Bank of
Australia discovered this year that it still
had about A$19 million worth of the awful
stuff: 5,850 gold coins now believed to have
significant numismatic value, acquired prior to
1976, when Australian law, as the bank's

Gold may rise for fourth straight week and reach $500, Bloomberg survey says

Section: Daily Dispatches

3:57p ET Sunday, November 27, 2005

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

John Crudele, the New York Post's financial writer,
may be the only major newspaper financial writer in
the United States to express skepticism of the
authorities and to report evidence of impropriety
in the markets. That's why his column is often
cited in GATA dispatches.

Now Crudele plans to start writing a question-

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