Daily Dispatches

9:09p ET Thursday, April 15, 2004

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

Here's a message from GATA's lieutenant for Germany
-- or is that oberst? -- Dietmar Seibholz. It is of
special interest to our supporters in Europe.

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

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A group of German, Austrian, and Swiss specialists
founded the Konstanzer Kreis (the Group of Konstanz)

U.S. coin dealer continues suit against Barrick
despite court decision to seal some documents

By Drew Hasselback
National Post/Financial Post, Toronto
Wednesday, April 14, 2004

Blanchard and Co., a U.S. coin dealer that accuses
Barrick Gold Corp. of manipulating the price of gold,
will proceed with its lawsuit in U.S. federal court
despite losing a motion on discovery rules.

Blanchard is suing Barrick and J.P. Morgan Chase

By Maria Golvnina
Reuters via The Moscow Times
Tuesday, April 13, 2004

http://www.themoscowtimes.com/stories/2004/04/13/049.html

Miners are competing for a Siberian field believed to
contain 1,000 tons of gold.

Western gold explorers may have learned a lot about
doing business in Russia after a flurry of deals in this

By Theodore Butler
April 13, 2004

As I was preparing this article, the gold and silver
markets moved dramatically down. No one should be terribly
surprised. The important point is that the dealers
succeeded in tricking the brain-dead tech funds again.

There is something I must say about today's dramatic
price decline. Kodak and the users didn't use less
silver than normal. The miners didn't produce more