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Gold/Mining/Energy : Gold Price Monitor
GDXJ 96.06-1.4%Nov 17 4:00 PM EST

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To: Alex who wrote (55080)6/25/2000 11:16:00 AM
From: goldsnow  Read Replies (1) of 116762
 
When a guerilla army invades your mine site and threatens to shoot your staff unless you give them the four-wheel drives as troop transports, what do you do?
"You hand over the keys," said Mr Terry Burgess. He knows exactly how it feels.

When rebels took the Prime Minister of the Solomon Islands, Mr Bartholomew Ulufa'alu, hostage on June 5, they effectively also took hostage the $100 million gold mine Mr Burgess's company bought just four weeks earlier.

"I was surprised to get the phone call [telling him of the coup]," said Mr Burgess, chief executive of the listed Australian company Delta Gold Ltd.

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