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With BIS gold swap, central banks throw the kitchen sink at gold

Section: Daily Dispatches

7:30p ET Tuesday, July 6, 2010

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

Western central banks have begun throwing the kitchen sink at gold, as word broke today of a monster gold swap undertaken by the Bank for International Settlements, which, as GATA noted the other day, long has been a center of surreptitious gold market intervention (see http://www.gata.org/node/8773) and indeed was the lead defendant in GATA consultant Reg Howe's gold price manipulation lawsuit in U.S. District Court in Boston in 2000 (see http://www.goldensextant.com/). The BIS gold swap appears to involve 380 tonnes that likely were sold into the market immediately. A report about it can be found at Jesse's Cafe Americain here:

http://jessescrossroadscafe.blogspot.com/2010/07/imf-engaged-in-gold-swa...

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



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Prophecy to Become Coal Producer This Year
with 1.5 Billion Tonnes of Resource

Prophecy Resource Corp. (TSX.V: PCY) announced on May 11 that it has entered into a mine services agreement with Leighton Asia Ltd. to begin coal production this year. Production will begin with a 250,000-tonne starter pit as planned in August, with production advancing to 2 million tonnes per year in 2011. Prophecy is fully funded to production and its management team includes John Morganti, Arnold Armstrong, and Rob McEwen.

For Prophecy's complete press release about its production plans, please visit:

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