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To: d:oug who wrote (85768)	5/24/2002 7:15:07 AM
From: d:oug	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 116816

Reports on GATA's role at the London conference of mining industry analysts . Dear Friends of GATA and Gold: . There's some fine reporting tonight at TheMiningWeb.com about the London conference of mining industry analysts, which a delegation from GATA is attending. There are two articles: 1) Washington gold pact must go 2) Quo vadis GATA? CHRIS POWELL, Secretary/Treasurer Gold Anti-Trust Action Committee Inc. ================================================ Warning Warning Warning Warning Warning Warning Warning ================================================ Click below url for access to this story, but be warned, source is GATA ( Gold Anti-Trust Action gata.org ) a civil rights and educational organization (USA) and contained is a solicitation. Please "Next" now if you find such harmful. groups.yahoo.com or mips1.net mips1.net

To: d:oug who wrote (85768)	5/24/2002 7:51:30 AM
From: long-gone	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 116816

Gold mining still getting bad press: Boulder Camera Xcel plant top county polluter By Katy Human Camera Staff Writer -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Xcel Energy's Valmont power plant tops a list of toxic chemical emissions in Boulder County for the third year in a row. The east Boulder power plant also is the sixth-worst toxic emitter in the state, according to 2000 figures released Thursday by the Environmental Protection Agency. The Cripple Creek & Victor Gold Mining Company in Teller County is first on the state list. Every spring, the EPA releases its Toxic Release Inventory, which reports the amounts of toxic chemicals generated and released into the environment by companies two years previously. The federal agency requires companies to self-report potentially harmful pollutants such as mercury, dioxin and sulfur dioxide. Companies in Colorado released 17 percent more toxic chemicals in 2000 than 1999, according to the state health department's toxic inventory coordinator, Kirk Mills. Mills blamed the increase primarily on higher toxic releases reported by mining companies and coal-burning power plants. Valmont's 2000 toxic pollution numbers are significantly higher than those reported in 1999, but only because one of the power plant's generators was down for part of 1999, said Jim Witt, an environmental analyst for Xcel Energy. The company burned 615,000 tons of coal at Valmont in 2000, and 327,000 tons in 1999. In 2000, it released a total of 169,915 pounds of toxic chemicals to the air, through smokestacks; 360,044 pounds to landfills and 95 pounds to surface water. All of those releases are higher than in 1998, but Witt said the company has been able to keep a significant amount of toxic chemicals from the air, with pollution control equipment. Bag houses and sprayers turn gaseous emissions into solids, which can then be released to landfills. "Everything has to go somewhere," Witt said, "but it's better to have it in solid than air ... because in landfills where it is maintained in place, no one can come in contact with it." Pharmaceutical company Roche Colorado, which released the second largest amount of toxic chemicals in Boulder County, released 77,850 pounds to the air in 2000, and 25,800 to "off-site" locations, a total of 103,650 pounds. That's less than the previous year's releases of 166,000 pounds, said company spokesman John Tayer. He said the improvement reflects his company's commitment to decreasing its environmental impact. For more information, please see the following Web sites: epa.gov and epa.gov. thedailycamera.com

To: d:oug who wrote (85768)	5/24/2002 7:52:56 AM
From: long-gone	Respond to of 116816

Friday May 24, 7:44 am Eastern Time Reuters Business Report Gold Comes Out Top as Investors Sweat By Steven Swindells LONDON (Reuters) - Gold surged close to its highest level in almost three years on Friday as investors piled into the safe-haven asset on Middle East violence, fears of an India-Pakistan war and a terror attack in the United States. (cont) biz.yahoo.com