Daily Dispatches

8:26p ET Sunday, March 3, 2002

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

Here's another report about South Africa's
expulsion of Durban Roodeport Deep CEO
Mark Wellesley-Wood, from www.News24.com.
With all the political polemicism here, I
suppose that one has to read between the
lines, but in any case this seems likely
to discourage foreign investment in South
Africa and to make things harder for that

Gold's tiny nuggets are thriving
Believers battle naysayers; Greenspan talkin' oxen

By Thom Calandra
www.CBS.MarketWatch.com
Friday, March 1, 2002

SAN FRANCISCO (CBS.MW) -- The price of gold is trying
to keep its head above $300, with little success. Yet shares of
the riskiest gold mining companies, the so-called junior
exploration companies, are at their highest points since late 1999.

4:54p ET Sunday, March 3, 2002

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

The mining news Internet site www.TheMiningWeb.com has
just reported that South Africa is refusing re-entry to
Durban Roodeport Deep chief executive Mark Wellesley-Wood.
You can read about it here:

a href=http://www.mips1.net/MGGold.nsf/Current/4225685F0043D1B242256B71005D64ht...

5:10p ET Sunday, March 3, 2002

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

MiningWeb.com has determined that the German central
bank official whose remark about selling more gold
spooked the gold market the other day went out of his
way to make his point.

This, MiningWeb.com, gives credence to the complaint
that central banks are in league to keep the gold price
down.

You can find the MiningWeb story here: