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Publicity and contacts grow on South Africa tour
Submitted by cpowell on Fri, 2001-02-02 03:00 Section: Daily Dispatches12:05a ET Friday, February 2, 2001
Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:
Harry Clawar, who has been documenting the
strange suppression of the gold price in
the New York market, continues with his
crucial work in a new essay at Gold-Eagle:
a href=http://www.gold-eagle.com/editorials_01/clawar020201.htmlhttp://www.gold...
CHRIS POWELL, Secretary/Treasurer
Gold Fields confirms approach by AngloGold
Submitted by cpowell on Thu, 2001-02-01 03:00 Section: Daily Dispatches10p ET Wednesday, January 31, 2001
Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:
In the last week GATA has received a couple
of contributions by bank wire, one from
Britain and one from Switzerland. We never
get a full name and address on such
contributions even as we would like to
acknowledge them formally, so if the donors
would contact me at GATAComm@aol.com, I'd
appreciate it.
CHRIS POWELL, Secretary/Treasurer
South African media full of attention for GATA
Submitted by cpowell on Thu, 2001-02-01 03:00 Section: Daily DispatchesThursday February 1, 9:24 am Eastern Time
Gold Fields profit jumps,confirms AngloGold talks
By Darren Schuettler
JOHANNESBURG, Feb 1 (Reuters) -- South Africa's Gold Fields Ltd on
Thursday reported a 38 percent jump in second quarter earnings and
confirmed it had informal talks on a tie-up with rival AngloGold Ltd .
Gold Fields said net earnings rose to 277 million rand ($36 million),
Anglo-American bids for DeBeers
Submitted by cpowell on Thu, 2001-02-01 03:00 Section: Daily Dispatches2:30p ET Thursday, February 1, 2001
Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:
I just talked with GATA Chairman Bill Murphy in
Johannesburg. He reports the following:
* He spent more than two hours at dinner last night
with the king of the Zulus, who was sympathetic and
helpful.
* He was interviewed for three minutes this morning
on a national television news program that was seen
throughout the country. Later in the day he visited a
Who sent those bank wires?
Submitted by cpowell on Wed, 2001-01-31 03:00 Section: Daily Dispatches10p ET Tuesday, January 30, 2001
Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:
If you're having trouble running the URL
for the Mining Web profile of GATA Chairman
Bill Murphy, go to the following address,
scroll down to the quot;Analysisquot; section, and
you'll see the headline to click on:
a href=http://www.theminingweb.com/http://www.theminingweb.com//a
CHRIS POWELL, Secretary/Treasurer
South Africa receives GATA chairman with interest
Submitted by cpowell on Tue, 2001-01-30 03:00 Section: Daily Dispatches9p ET Monday, January 29, 2001
Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:
I.M. Vronsky, proprietor of www.Gold-Eagle.com,
documents in a new essay why gold is the favored
investment during deflation and credit collapse.
You can find it here:
a href=http://www.gold-eagle.com/editorials_98/vronsky060698.htmlhttp://www.gol...
CHRIS POWELL, Secretary/Treasurer
Mining Web profiles GATA''s Murphy as S. Africa tour begins
Submitted by cpowell on Tue, 2001-01-30 03:00 Section: Daily Dispatches5:30p ET Tuesday, January 30, 2001
Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:
GATA Chairman Bill Murphy is hard at work in South
Africa, having arrived there Sunday.
I spoke with him today from Durban, on the Indian
Ocean, and he was thrilled with the reception he has
been getting.
He already has had a long meeting with Gold Fields
CEO Chris Thompson, and has meetings scheduled with
other mining company executives.
Link to Mining Web profile of GATA Chairman Murphy
Submitted by cpowell on Tue, 2001-01-30 03:00 Section: Daily Dispatches9:09p ET Tuesday, January 30, 2001
Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:
David McKay of the South Africa-based Internet
site, www.theminingweb.com. has done a great
profile of GATA Chairman Bill Murphy, based on
an interview done soon after Murphy's arrival
in that country last weekend.
It's headlined: quot;GATA's Bill Murphy: Fringe lunatic
or golden messiah?quot;
(I really don't know why we can't have both!)
Gold is the place to be in deflation and credit collapse
Submitted by cpowell on Mon, 2001-01-29 03:00 Section: Daily Dispatches6:15 ET Sunday, January 28, 2001
Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:
Gold-Eagle has posted an important essay by Jay
Taylor about the money supply, the stock market,
gold, and GATA. You can find it here:
a href=http://www.gold-eagle.com/gold_digest_01/taylor012901.htmlhttp://www.gol...
CHRIS POWELL, Secretary/Treasurer
Important essay by Jay Taylor at Gold-Eagle
Submitted by cpowell on Sun, 2001-01-28 03:00 Section: Daily DispatchesBy BILL MURPHY, Chairman
Gold Anti-Trust Action Committee
Friday, January 26, 2001
Before dawn I will leave Dallas on behalf of the Gold
Anti-Trust Action Committee for South Africa to meet
with the press, mining union officials, business and
political leaders, and most all of the major gold
producers in that mineral-rich country.
The mission is simple. GATA and Reg Howe are bringing
that country and much of southern Africa a way to