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Essay in Barron''s protests Fed''s shredding its minutes

Section: Daily Dispatches

6:05p ET Sunday, December 16, 2001

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

GATA Chairman Bill Murphy's dispatch this evening mentioned
briefly something of great encouragement to us: a nine-page
special report in the December issue of the New African
magazine about GATA and the suppression of the gold price.

The report includes the full text of Murphy's speech to the
GATA African Gold Summit in Durban, South Africa, last May,

Silver as money is proposed for Mexico''s economic liberation

Section: Daily Dispatches

8:45p ET Sunday, December 16, 2001

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

Last week Barron's published an essay by Robert D.
Auerbach, a professor at the University of Texas,
complaining about the Federal Reserve's active
concealment of the public policies it carries out.
Interestingly, one of the Fed meetings cited by
Auerbach is the one in whose minutes GATA's
investigators discovered what we consider to be the

A few souvenir Krugerrands from Durban Roodeport Deep are still available

Section: Daily Dispatches

9p ET Sunday, December 16, 2001

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

The Mexican industrialist and patriot Hugo Salinas Price,
a longtime GATA supporter, got onto national television
in Mexico a couple of weeks ago for an interview advocating
the remonetarization of silver in that country.

Price was explaining and warning about dollar imperialism
long before GATA was even founded, and his analysis of

Will Barrick bid for Normandy, or even for AngloGold?

Section: Daily Dispatches

9:14p ET Sunday, December 16, 2001

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

We've had good response to our offer to give a one-ounce
Durban Roodeport Deep Krugerrand and a gold-plated
U.S./South Africa friendship flag lapel pin to donors of
$525 or more. But we still have a few left and so remind
our friends and supporters of their availability -- first
come, first served.

We look at obtaining one of these coins as potentially

Rep. Paul would outlaw ESF intervention in metals markets

Section: Daily Dispatches

By Michael Weir
The West Australian
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December 17, 2001

North American gold miners Barrick Gold and Homestake
Mining have wrapped up their $US2.3 billion ($4.43 billion)
merger, clearing the way for the expanded Barrick to enter
the battle for Normandy Mining.

London Times analyzes struggle over Normandy and hedging

Section: Daily Dispatches

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By James Regan

SYDNEY, Dec 10 (Reuters) -- Newmont Mining Corp, which on Monday
lifted its bid for Australia's Normandy Mining Ltd by A$900 million,
is betting that gold prices are poised to rise after years in the
doldrums.

quot;We think there is a substantial movement in the gold price coming,quot;

AngloGold comments on Newmont''s latest offer for Normandy

Section: Daily Dispatches

6:37p ET Sunday, December 9, 2001

Dear Friend of Gata and Gold:

Newmont Mining announced today that it has increased its
offer for Normandy Mining to the equivalent of A$1.90 per
share. You can read the Newmont press release here:

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CHRIS POWELL, Secretary/Treasurer

Newmont, Franco executives say it''s all about hedging

Section: Daily Dispatches

11:19a ET Monday, December 10, 2001

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

AngloGold has issued a statement in response to
Newmont's latest offer for Normandy Mining, and
you can find it here:

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CHRIS POWELL, Secretary/Treasurer

Newmont increases offer for Normandy

Section: Daily Dispatches

10:28p ET Tuesday, December 4, 2001

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

AngloGold Chairman and CEO Bobby Godsell has told a
GATA supporter that his company is reducing its gold
hedges and that its acquisition target in Australia,
Normandy Mining, is quot;substantially overhedged.quot;

Further, Godsell sees the controversial proposal by
some gold producers to spend $200 million promoting
gold jewelry as also promoting the purchase of gold for

Godsell wants to reduce hedging by AngloGold and Normandy

Section: Daily Dispatches

1:47p ET Monday, December 3, 2001

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

Here's the press release we issued today about
Durban Roodeport Deep's magnificent contribution
of Krugerrands to GATA at the New Orleans Investment
Conference, and our plan to raise money by selling
them as keepsakes, along with U.S./South African
friendship flag lapel pins. If you're interested,
please get in touch with me as explained in the

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