Daily Dispatches

World Gold Council press release

NEW YORK, April 17, -- The World Gold Council has
announced at its annual meeting in Melbourne,
Australia, that Mr. C. M. T. Thompson, chairman of
Gold Fields Ltd., has been elected chairman of
the WGC, with immediate effect.

He succeeds Mr. Bobby Godsell, chairman of
AngloGold Ltd.

Chris Thompson said: quot;As I will soon have more time
available as a non-executive chairman of Gold Fields

GATA and Samex Mining Announce
www.GATAChinese.org to Promote Gold

DALLAS (Business Wire, April 17, 2002) -- The
Gold Anti-Trust Action Committee is proud to
bring the following announcement to your
attention, which was released this afternoon
by Jeff Dahl, Chief Executive Officer of
Samex Mining, headquartered in Vancouver,
Canada:

SAMEX MINING CORP.
CDNX:SXG, OTCBB:SMXMF)
Contact 800-828-1488

9:08p ET Thursday, April 4, 2002

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

A remarkable financial market commentary that
centered on GATA's work was distributed
yesterday by the Knight-Ridder/Tribune news
service and published at the CNN and London
Evening Standard Internet sites.

While we don't know at this hour how extensively
the commentary has been published in the United
States, the Knight-Ridder/Tribune news service is

Having read this far through the ruling, it
was becoming clear that the judge was
stretching to justify his conclusions. But
the most egregious statement was yet to come
in the tortured reasoning offered in the
following conclusion: quot;The 17 directors of
the BIS voted unanimously to adopt the
mandatory share redemption plan. Only two of
the directors, Greenspan and McDonough, are
defendants in this case. Given the votes of