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To: E. Charters who wrote (79564)	11/25/2001 10:12:30 AM
From: IngotWeTrust	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 116759

I take exception to your swipe at Peg Witte. She busted a union who killed one of their own union miners in a sabotaging bomb blast to try to break her. Her plaudits were well expressed in Canadian press at the time and your view is a minority one. She went broke when Canada went after her Yellowknife project, at the behest and heckling of ABX???-- <---who was so pissed at her for swiping C$200 million of their dollars to buy her out when she went after LAC minerals) It took the Canadian Gov't exercisings their imminent domain authority and turning Yellowknife into a "park" i.e., a protected piece of real estate for political purposes to break that girl. Didn't have a damn thing to do with the frigging union up there when it came right down to it. She helicoptered in for months and months and months on end her crew to keep the mines open, honest miners on the job who weren't scared of being killed by "their own" & STILL made a profit on those mines! The 'unions' blew up one of her mills on site as well. Some farsighted, long range planning for survival of the miners union bosses. HRMPH!!! How disgusting!! She went broke trying to get fair pay for what waas stolen from her shareholders and getting tied up in court by the Canadian Barristers who wouldn't pay up even after settling with her...they didn't hold up their end of the agreement, and quite literally "starved" her and the "union" who was working there. It's a shameful chapter in Canadian mining history, frankly! Canada has nothing to be proud of in going after her and bankrupting her shareholders in the manner that they did. They just didn't like the idea of a woman in mining, and she was better than most of them, above ground or underground. Hell, she even had the respect of her former hubby which is saying a lot as a miner. Just too many pissy male miners who couldn't suck it up and do their job because a woman signed their paychecks. For Shame! I hate sour grapes on the subject of Peg Witte and Royal Oak Mines, EC. She's one of my sheroes, and god knows we have too damn few women in mining, and now we know one reason why...the Canucks want us barefoot, pregnant and chained to the sink while they kill our husbands, sons and fathers in "union protecting" activities. gold_tutor