Daily Dispatches

9:15p EST Monday, February 7, 2000

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

Here are two outstanding essays on the recent activity
in the gold market by Frank Veneroso and John Brimelow
of Veneroso Associates, probably the world's most
expert analysts of gold supply. The essays are prefaced
with some background about Veneroso and his firm.

They conclude that only government manipulation of the
gold market explains the price action, and that the

10:30p EST Monday, February 8, 2000

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

The foremost analyst of world gold supplies, Frank A.J.
Veneroso of Veneroso Associates, addresses the question
of government manipulation of the gold market in the
essay that follows. He concludes that such manipulation
very well may be going on and that it will make the explosion
of the gold price even more violent.

GATA is grateful to Veneroso for his permission to

2:20a EST Tuesday, February 8, 2000

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

Reginald H. Howe, Harvard-trained lawyer and former
mining executive, and sole proprietor of
www.GoldenSextant.com, has analyzed Barrick Gold's
announcement Monday about its hedging, and observes
that the company bought only quot;virtualquot; gold, paper gold
-- and well may have done so with the help of the U.S.
Treasury Department's Exchange Stabilization Fund.

11:25p EST Thursday, February 3, 2000

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

GATA can't say much more about the following Reuters
story than quot;Amen!quot;

CHRIS POWELL, Secretary/Treasurer
Gold Anti-Trust Action Committee Inc.

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GOLD FIELDS SLAMS INDUSTRY HEDGE ADDICTION

By Darren Schuettler

JOHANNESBURG, Feb. 3 (Reuters) -- Gold Fields Ltd, the
world's second biggest gold producer, said on Thursday