To: american dreamer who wrote (29223 ) 10/23/2002 12:57:53 PM From: Fred C. Dobbs Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 34075 GE - I am not dreaming. I am simply reading.. something any intelligent person would do before investing. Have you bothered to read the company's filings? Let me refer you to them and a couple of simple statements. Simply put, if the company itself admits to being inexperienced at this type of mining, who are you to contradict them? Are you saying you know more than the company and Abbott himself? You are dreaming. Every company has a disclaimer. So what's you're point? With all your expertise, why waste your time here? There's bigger fish to fry. CAUTIONARY STATEMENT ON FORWARD LOOKING INFORMATION Some of the information in this web site constitutes forward-looking statements within the definition of the U.S. Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. You can identify these statements by forward-looking words such as "may", "will", "expect", "anticipate", believe", "estimate", and "continue" or similar words. You should read statements that contain these words carefully because they: discuss future expectations; contain projections of future results of operations or of financial condition; or state other "forward-looking" information. Placer Dome Inc. believes it is important to communicate its expectations to its shareholders, to prospective investors and to the general public. However, there may be events in the future that Placer Dome Inc. is not able to predict accurately or over which it has no control. The risk factors listed below and cautionary language in this web site provide examples of risks, uncertainties and events that may cause actual results to differ materially from the expectations and projections described by Placer Dome Inc. in its forward-looking statements. Actual results relating to, among other things, reserves, results of exploration, capital costs and mine production costs could differ materially from those currently anticipated in such statements. Factors affecting forward-looking statements include: the speculative nature of mining exploration and development activities; the productivity of Placer Dome's mining properties; changes in the operating costs; changes in ore reserve estimates; changes in economic conditions and conditions in the gold, foreign exchange and other financial markets; changes of the interest rates on borrowings; changes in the traditional role of gold as a strategic reserve asset; hedging activities; changes in gold and other prices for the minerals Placer Dome produces; changes in the investments and exploration expenditure levels; litigation; legislation; environmental, judicial, regulatory, political and competitive developments in areas in which Placer Dome operates; technological and operational difficulties encountered in connection with Placer Dome's mining activities; labour relation matters and costs; and Placer Dome foreign investment risk.