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GATA goes Chinese, thanks to Samex Mining

Section: Daily Dispatches

By Thom Calandra
CBS.marketwatch.com
Monday, March 11, 2002

SAN FRANCISCO -- Gold-timing newsletters are increasing
their recommended exposure to bullion in a move that could
prove prophetic.

The rise in recommended gold-market exposure comes after
a rocky week for gold and gold-mining shares and sharp
losses for the dollar in currency markets. Recommended
gold-market exposure rose to 54.17 percent as of the March

Gold market timers are turning bullish

Section: Daily Dispatches

12:50p ET Sunday, March 10, 2002

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

The annual spring meeting of the Committee for Monetary
Research and Education Inc. will be held in New York on
Wednesday, April 3, and feature a presentation by GATA's
consultant James Turk, editor of the Freemarket Gold and
Money Report and founder of Goldmoney.com.

Turk's topic will be: quot;Opening the U.S. Treasury Books:

James Turk speaks on Where''s the Gold at CMRE meeting April 3

Section: Daily Dispatches

4:34p ET Friday, March 8, 2002

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

TheMiningWeb.com reports that the South African government
has overruled the exclusion of Durban Roodeport Deep CEO
Mark Wellesley-Wood and allowed his return to the country.
TheMiningWeb.com also quotes Wellesley-Wood as saying
that shareholders are calling for changes in the company's
governance. You can read about it here:

Durban CEO will be allowed to return to South Africa

Section: Daily Dispatches

8:51p ET Thursday, March 7, 2002

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

The Bank for International Settlements isn't the only
institution in trouble with Reg Howe for freezing out
minority shareholders. So is Kinross Gold. You
can read about it here:

a href=http://www.goldensextant.com/Kinross-Kinam.htmlhttp://www.goldensextant....

CHRIS POWELL, Secretary/Treasurer

Kinross warned about unequal treatment of shareholders

Section: Daily Dispatches

NY gold holds up after final Bank of England sale, $300/oz seen

NEW YORK, March 5 (Reuters) -- COMEX gold gained
ground despite more supply laid on the market by the
Bank of England's latest and last auction of gold
reserves, and traders said they now expect gold to be
able to climb higher.

Immediately following the bank's 20-tonne gold sale,
there was almost no reaction in the London bullion

Please pardon malfunction of GATA dispatch mechanism

Section: Daily Dispatches

11:56p ET Tuesday, March 5, 2002

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

We have received more encouragement from Harmony
Gold through a letter, appended here, from the
company's chairman, Adam Fleming, who reminds us
implicitly that the most basic support we can give to
the gold cause is to buy and hold gold as a store of
value. It would be great if more mines made it as easy
to buy gold as Harmony does.

Insight article about GATA is picked up by CNN Internet site

Section: Daily Dispatches

12:26a ET Wednesday, March 6, 2002

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

Our dispatch mechanism at YahooGroups has been
malfunctioning for a couple of days now, so I've not
been able to send you everything I've wanted to, and
in the next day or two you may end up with duplicate
messages. Please pardon the inconvenience.

I hope you've discovered the good coverage of the big
news of the week, the controversy at Durban

Rep. Ron Paul appeals for support for bill regulating ESF''s gold activity

Section: Daily Dispatches

11:41p ET Tuesday, March 5, 2002

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

Insight magazine's article about GATA by Kelly
Patricia O'Meara has made the Cable News
Network's Internet site, here:

cnniw.yellowbrix.com/pages/cnniw/Story.nsp?story_id=28262615

Word is getting out.

CHRIS POWELL, Secretary/Treasurer

Bundesbank shoots down talk of more gold sales

Section: Daily Dispatches

11:47p ET Tuesday, March 5, 2002

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

GATA distributed yesterday the press release below in
the hope of persuading Americans to contact their
members of Congress about U.S. Rep. Ron Paul's
legislation to impose some accountability on the
Exchange Stabilization Fund's activity in the gold
market.

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

Harmony Gold markets gold bars and Lord of the Rings ring via Internet

Section: Daily Dispatches

JOHANNESBURG (Dow Jones) -- Roger Kebble, the deputy
chairman and executive director of South African gold
miner Durban Roodepoort Deep Ltd. (DROOY), has been
suspended from his executive director position, a
company source said Monday.

The suspension means he will cease all executive functions,
though he will remain as an ordinary director and will be free
to carry out these duties, the source said.

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