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Barrick strives to limit access to sensitive documents in Blanchard lawsuit
Submitted by cpowell on Wed, 2004-04-14 03:00 Section: Daily DispatchesBy Peter Klinger
The Times, London
Tuesday, April 13, 2004
http://business.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,9072-1072621,00.html
Gold fever is gripping the City, but instead of drill rigs
heading for Kalgoorlie or Anchorage, the new destination
is far-eastern Russia. Two AIM-listed stocks, Highland
Gold Mining and Peter Hambro Mining (PHM), are already
Does Rothschild know something?
Submitted by cpowell on Wed, 2004-04-14 03:00 Section: Daily DispatchesU.S. coin dealer continues suit against Barrick
despite court decision to seal some documents
By Drew Hasselback
National Post/Financial Post, Toronto
Wednesday, April 14, 2004
Blanchard and Co., a U.S. coin dealer that accuses
Barrick Gold Corp. of manipulating the price of gold,
will proceed with its lawsuit in U.S. federal court
despite losing a motion on discovery rules.
Blanchard is suing Barrick and J.P. Morgan Chase
Sprott''s Embry to appear on ROB-TV''s ''Market Call'' Thursday
Submitted by cpowell on Wed, 2004-04-14 03:00 Section: Daily DispatchesFor 200 years it has been the firm's
business to know....
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Rothschild to pull out of gold market
By Charles Pretzlik
Financial Times
Wednesday, April 14, 2004
http://news.ft.com/servlet/ContentServer?
pagename=FT.com/StoryFT/FullStory&c=StoryFT&cid=1079420344695
N.M. Rothschild, the investment bank, is to withdraw from
MineWeb and Sinclair comment on Tuesday''s fall in gold
Submitted by cpowell on Tue, 2004-04-13 03:00 Section: Daily DispatchesBy Maria Golvnina
Reuters via The Moscow Times
Tuesday, April 13, 2004
http://www.themoscowtimes.com/stories/2004/04/13/049.html
Miners are competing for a Siberian field believed to
contain 1,000 tons of gold.
Western gold explorers may have learned a lot about
doing business in Russia after a flurry of deals in this
Ted Butler: The Relative Value of Silver
Submitted by cpowell on Tue, 2004-04-13 03:00 Section: Daily Dispatches5:25p ET Tuesday, April 13, 2004
Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:
There's early commentary at MineWeb on today's fall in
the gold price:
http://www.mineweb.net/sections/gold_silver/315728.htm
As always, Jim Sinclair has some interesting and
timely things to say as well:
The British rush for Russian gold
Submitted by cpowell on Tue, 2004-04-13 03:00 Section: Daily DispatchesBy Theodore Butler
April 13, 2004
As I was preparing this article, the gold and silver
markets moved dramatically down. No one should be terribly
surprised. The important point is that the dealers
succeeded in tricking the brain-dead tech funds again.
There is something I must say about today's dramatic
price decline. Kodak and the users didn't use less
silver than normal. The miners didn't produce more
Gold rush lures Western miners to Russia; Chinese demand for gold said strong
Submitted by cpowell on Mon, 2004-04-12 03:00 Section: Daily DispatchesSchroeder Government Is Reported to Want
Even More Freedom to Spend Gold Reserves
By John Fraher
Bloomberg News Service
Sunday, April 11, 2004
http://quote.bloomberg.com/apps/news?
pid=10000100&sid=auoMvqn0HXQQ&refer=germany
FRANKFURT, Germany -- Hans Welteke, son of Bundesbank
President Ernst Welteke, said his father clashed with German
Harmony, South African mineworkers union sound conciliatory
Submitted by cpowell on Sun, 2004-04-11 03:00 Section: Daily Dispatches9:34p ET Saturday, April 10, 2004
Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:
The Financial Post's interview today with John Ing, chief
of Toronto investment house Maison Placements, appended
here, echoes what you've been hearing from GATA and its
consultants and friends, like GoldMoney's James Turk and
Sprott Asset Management's John Embry, for a long time now.
The nice thing is that these points are starting to reach
David Bond interviews Hecla CEO; Jason Hommel updates silver stock valuations
Submitted by cpowell on Sun, 2004-04-11 03:00 Section: Daily DispatchesConfident that job losses can be minimized
By Hilton Stone
Sunday Times, South Africa
Sunday, April 11, 2004
http://www.sundaytimes.co.za/2004/04/11/business/companies/comp04.asp
The National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) and Harmony
Gold are confident they will find a way to avoid widespread
job losses at the country's third-biggest gold producer.
Argument about Germany''s gold is said to have preceded Welteke''s leave
Submitted by cpowell on Sun, 2004-04-11 03:00 Section: Daily Dispatches12:34p ET Sunday, April 11, 2004
David Bond's latest Wallace Street Journal column is
an interview with Hecla CEO Phillips S. Baker, who
says, among other things, that Hecla has been assured
that it will recover the gold recently seized by the
Venezuelan government and that Hecla won't be hedging
its gold and silver production. You can find Bond's
interview at his Internet site here: