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To: Fitz who wrote (23999)	12/8/1998 2:08:00 PM
From: IngotWeTrust	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 116815

Some nuggets I've found (some I've ALREADY eBay auctioned) ENJOY! (actual size:) worldaccessnet.com (enlarged (2x) for eBay auctionee's to show detail ) worldaccessnet.com 23 ouncer found by a friend of mine's husband, from Paradise, CA (Northern sierras)--stumbled (over it in pitch black tunnel.) Enlarged 2x for the heck of it...and why not? worldaccessnet.com Fritz, haven't joined 'em yet. Thinking about it tho'. Which sites are your favorites? Been to Burnt River? Scott River? O/49r

To: Fitz who wrote (23999)	12/9/1998 12:49:00 PM
From: long-gone	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 116815

Possible disturbances in (some of) African Gold supplies? Yahoo! NewsWorld Headlines Wednesday December 9 11:21 AM ET Angola UNITA Says Govt Offensive Driven Back By Buchizya Mseteka JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - Angola's former rebel group UNITA said Wednesday it had beaten back a government air and ground offensive against its strongholds of Andulo and Bailundo. UNITA secretary-general Paulo Lukamba Gato told Reuters by telephone from Andulo that government ground forces suffered heavy casualties, were on the retreat and were being pursued by UNITA forces toward the strategic town of Cuito. Regional security sources confirmed the fighting and said heavy battles were taking place outside Cuito, a strategic gateway to Angola's east and the central highlands. The sources said the former rebel group appeared to have seized huge tracts of territory in the latest fighting which erupted on December 5. ''We have beaten them at their own game. They attacked our positions at Andulo and Bailundo using planes and ground troops but we have beaten them back,'' Gato said, adding that a huge assortment of weapons had been destroyed or captured. ''Government forces are now retreating in total disarray toward Cuito. We have organized a popular resistance and people are pursuing them toward Cuito,'' he added. Gato, the second most powerful man after veteran guerrilla leader and UNITA boss Jonas Savimbi, said a mechanized government column was ambushed Tuesday and destroyed by UNITA on the Huambo-Bailundo route. There was no independent confirmation but military analysts in South Africa said, if true, UNITA forces would have the strategic advantage over government forces in Huambo, a central highland city captured from UNITA in 1992. ''We are in control of the Huambo-Bailundo axis. The government made a wrong decision in attacking us and we are merely paying them back in their own currency,'' Gato said. He said the government offensive, a combined air and ground assault on UNITA positions, started early on December 5 and continued through to Tuesday when UNITA fought back using heavy artillery and anti-air defense systems. Regional sources said UNITA had captured the towns of Catabola outside Cuito, Camacupa and Kuanza in Bie province and that frontline forces were pushing toward Cuito. They also reported heavy fighting in the Cafofe area. A 1994 peace deal ended 20 years of war between the formerly Marxist Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA) and UNITA, once backed by South Africa and the United States. But implementation has never been completed, in part because of deep mutual suspicion between MPLA and UNITA. The regional sources said the renewed fighting in the oil- and diamond-rich southern African nation had forced the government of President Eduardo dos Santos to withdraw a mechanized brigade from Kitona in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, where Luanda is backing President Laurent Kabila in a civil war. Kitona is a rear-support base for Angolan forces sent to prop up Kabila's troubled administration against rebels backed by Uganda and Rwanda. They said the redeployment had also seen Angola withdraw significant airpower -- Russian-built MiG fighter planes and MI helicopter gunships -- from the Congo. The sources said Angolan ground and air forces defending the strategic Congolese diamond city of Mbuji-Mayi were not affected by the redeployment, but much would depend on how extensive the UNITA campaign turns out to be. ''Should UNITA intensify its campaign, then Luanda would have to make a drastic reassessment of its Congo involvement,'' a diplomat told Reuters. Angola forms the backbone of the southern African nations, including Namibia and Zimbabwe, supporting Kabila. Analysts said a much touted offensive by Kabila's military allies against the rebels, who control Congo's entire eastern region and the country's third largest city, Kisangani, had largely failed to take shape because of Angola's reluctance. They also warn that the conflict in the Congo and Angola could erupt into a full scale multi-national war at the heart of Africa. The U.N. Security Council last week agreed to renew the mandate of its 1,000 peacekeepers in Angola for a further three months in the hope of preventing a fresh war. dailynews.yahoo.com