Daily Dispatches

Newmont Forecasts Gold to Rise
Above $1,000 on Asian Demand

By Miriam Steffens
Bloomberg News Service
Sunday, November 27, 2005

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?
pid=10000080&sid=aotpaNV5Qtpw&refer=asia

SYDNEY -- Newmont Mining Corp., the world's largest producer of
gold, says the price of the precious metal may rise to more than

11:55a ET Sunday, November 27, 2005

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

Having gotten rid of Australia's national gold
reserves at historic low prices just before the
gold price turned up, the Reserve Bank of
Australia discovered this year that it still
had about A$19 million worth of the awful
stuff: 5,850 gold coins now believed to have
significant numismatic value, acquired prior to
1976, when Australian law, as the bank's

By Rachelle Younglai
Reuters
Friday, November 25, 2005

http://yahoo.reuters.com/financeQuoteCompanyNewsArticle.jhtml?
duid=mtfh05532_2005-11-25_23-42-54_n25615088_newsml

TORONTO -- Placer Dome Inc.'s chief executive has gone on the
offensive, hitting the road for face-to-face meetings with
shareholders and urging them to reject a hostile $9.2 billion bid

4:53p ET Thursday, November 24, 2005

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

When Russian President Vladimir Putin this week attended a mineral
resources exhibition in the Russian Far East, endorsed the plan of
the Bank of Russia to double its gold reserves, and expressed
support for increasing his country's gold production, many assumed
that Russian gold purchases would come from domestic production and