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More hedge book-induced mining bankruptcies predicted by Newmont''s Lassonde

Section: Daily Dispatches

'Less Gold to be Sold Than Planned'

IAfrica.com
Saturday, September 4, 2004

http://business.iafrica.com/news/345466.htm

European central banks may sell as little as 250
tons of gold per annum, instead of the maximum
of 500 tons per annum, as per the second
European Central Bank agreement, from 2004
through to 2009, London-based UBS analyst

Central banks may scale back plans for gold sales, analyst writes

Section: Daily Dispatches

Hedging strategy ambushes canny investors

By Stephen Bartholomeusz
The Age, Melbourne, Australia
September 4, 2004

http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/09/03/1093939146279.html?
oneclick=true

One of the perplexing questions generated by this
week's collapse of Sons of Gwalia is how so many
very smart investors could have got it so wrong.

Hedging strategy ambushes canny investors in Sons of Gwalia

Section: Daily Dispatches

8p ET Thursday, September 2, 2004

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

The World Gold Council purports to be the
representative of the gold community but until
today it had had virtually nothing to say for three
months -- not a word about Sprott Asset
Management's report confirming the manipulation
of the gold price, not a word about the collapse of
Sons of Gwalia because of excessive hedging, not

Just when it is most needed, the World Gold Council proclaims its irrelevance

Section: Daily Dispatches

12:36a ET Wednesday, September 1, 2004

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

James R. Cook, proprietor of GATA supporter
Investment Rarities in Minneapolis and longtime
sponsor of silver analyst Ted Butler's
commentaries, has published his own
commentary this week, substituting for Butler,
who is on vacation, and taking some credit
for Butler as the original illuminator of the
scam of precious metals leasing, by virtue of

James Cook: Ted Butler was first to expose the scam of precious metals leasing

Section: Daily Dispatches

8:43p ET Tuesday, August 31, 2004

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

Here's still another news story about the
supposedly imminent start of the World
Gold Council's U.S. bullion fund, which
has been imminent for a year and a half
now.

Note particularly the assertion that the
World Gold Council said it is forbidden to
comment. Since when has the World Gold
Council commented on ANYTHING relevant to

Market analysts speculate about covering Gwalia''s gold hedges

Section: Daily Dispatches

10:06p ET Monday, August 30, 2004

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

What could be nicer than a few autumn days in
Toronto?

(Who's the wiseguy who answered: A long,
leisurely retirement in Saint Maarten?)

Well, the path to a leisurely retirement in Saint
Maarten -- or anywhere else, for that matter --
may run through Toronto on Sunday and Monday,
October 3 and 4, when Cambridge House will

Is it gold or just paper? Only their bullion banker knows for sure

Section: Daily Dispatches

Sons Of Gwalia De-Hedging
Already Started, Analysts Say

By Gavin McGuire
Dow Jones Newswires
Monday, August 30, 2004

http://www.thebulliondesk.com/NewsProvider.aspx?NewsID=20975918

NEW YORK -- The voluntary fall into administration by
Australia's second-largest gold miner, Sons of Gwalia
Ltd., has prompted gold-market watchers to speculate

John Brimelow: Never mind gold''s price; look at volume -- and the Sprott report

Section: Daily Dispatches

Sons of Gwalia goes into administration

From the Australian Financial Review
Monday, August 30, 2004
http://afr.com/articles/2004/08/30/1093717888857.html

By the Australian Associated Press

Perth-based tantalum and gold company Sons of
Gwalia said today it had appointed voluntary
administrators after failing to get its

Gwalia''s forced bankruptcy hints at a cruel search for gold in hand

Section: Daily Dispatches

Never mind gold's price, look at volume

By John Brimelow
CBSMarketWatch.com
Monday, August 30, 2004

http://cbs.marketwatch.com/news/story.asp?guid=%7BD347F5DB%2D50E2%
2D487B%2D8131%2D45FDE3802A2F%7D&siteid=mktw

NEW YORK -- Gold is back above $400 (again). Last week
it seemed to stall (again). But look below the surface.

GATA Chairman Murphy and consultant James Turk will speak at Toronto conference

Section: Daily Dispatches

3:38p ET Monday, August 30, 2004

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

Dow Jones Newswires reports today in the story
appended here that J.P. Morgan, Goldman Sachs,
and Citigroup are among the big creditors in
the collapse of Australia's second-largest gold
mining company, Sons of Gwalia, a leader in
the practice of hedging gold mine production.

That's what hedging gets you in the future
of gold.

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