Beiträge von gogh

    GO,


    Deine Vorgehensweise bei Durban-Aktien ist seit Jahren gleich.


    Daher ist mir alles was Du dazu schreibst sofort einleuchtend.


    Nur ich habe andere Kriterien. Die sind streckenweise einfach nicht kompatibel.


    Was soll´s.




    Hoffentlich kriegst Du Deine "Hamburg 18 gestempelt".



    gruss


    gogh

    Die Mini-Kapitalerhöhung
    ====================



    "However, neighbouring mines dispute DRDGOLD’s right simply to walk


    away from the mines even if they had been owned by a subsidiary. The


    likely outcome remains far from clear. It is also not clear whether


    government will allow DRDGOLD to walk away from the mines’ longer-


    term water-pumping responsibilities."



    Also 180 Mio Rand, das sind ca. 20 Mio€.


    Sinnloses Geldverbrennen. Nutzeffekt: Null, Zero, niente!




    Wer sich für insolvent erklärt, macht sich tunlichst aus dem Staub.


    Stattdessen sich hinstellen und sagen: " Jetzt bin ich saniert.


    Meine anderen RSA-Minen sind profitabel."



    Nochmal Kassandra:
    ================


    Nach dem Konkursverwalter

    für Nordwest kommt demnächst der Sequestor für alles andere.



    Neuer Name für DRD:


    "Hippo-Drome-Gold" Kürzel HDG




    gogh

    Es geht nicht um Schwierigkeiten in der realen Güterwelt.


    Die lassen sich meistern.


    Da wird blödsinnig Kredit/Goodwill zerstört.

    Wer sagt, daß er Nordwest dichtmacht, nimmt

    5 Mio Reserven als Kreditgrundlage weg.


    Mit 30 USD je Unze sicher vorsichtig bewertet.

    Da kommt kein Banker/Buchprüfer dran vorbei.


    Und sich damit zu brüsten, den Status eines

    Bankrotteurs/Gemeinschuldners erreicht zu haben.

    Meine Güte.


    Das ist dümmer als die Polizei erlaubt.

    Und es zieht lichtscheues Gesindel an.



    Das Schweinchen Schlau im Märchen

    baute ein Haus aus Stroh um sich vor


    dem Bösen Wolf zu schützen.



    Gruss


    Gogh

    @Eldo

    bin aber selbst überrascht wie schnell der Gedanke mit der

    Durchgriffhaftung tatsächlich auf der agenda ist.


    Der abgedruckte Aufsatz mit dem Wellesly-Wood/Kebble Streit

    isr nur eine kurze Zusammenfassung des ansich bekannten Themas.



    (mal sehen, ob die Schweinchen etwas spannen und quieken)



    Gruss


    Gogh

    hopp Hippo hopp
    =============



    gogh



    Aus miningmx.com vom 04.04.05
    ==========================

    Bad blood rising
    =============



    THE five-year relationship between Mark Wellesley-Wood, CEO of DRDGOLD, and Roger Kebble, chairman of Randgold & Exploration, is as incredible as it’s acrimonious. The two men have sued and allegedly spied on each other; Kebble has been imprisoned (in a series of events allegedly orchestrated by Wellesley-Wood); Wellesley-Wood was deported (allegedly through Kebble’s links with the Government’s Home Affairs Department).



    And all the while, both have gladly seized the opportunity to firmly place a hob-nailed boot to the other’s scrotum – preferably in public. For example, who can forget Wellesley-Wood’s dubbing as “that pin-striped bandit” – an indelicate sobriquet invented by Brett Kebble, Roger’s son, during one live radio interview during 2002?


    But that’s nothing. Wellesley-Wood has wreaked a different kind of reputation destruction on the Kebbles. It’s now four years since Wellesley-Wood first accused Roger Kebble of fraud, an allegation from which the veteran miner has never recovered.


    The collateral damage has been huge. A stream of careers has perished, or at least indelibly harmed, as the two mining captains continually find means of reprising their smack down.


    DRD directors Nick Goodwin and Vic Hoops, Western Areas director John Stratton and Maryna Eloff and Benita Morton, DRD’s company secretary and legal adviser respectively, have been drawn into the fray. Many have lost their jobs and their reputations. And depending on whom you speak to, they’ve become the sacrificial lambs or supporting villains in a story that’s familiar even to those with no interest in mining.


    But casual observers can be forgiven for wondering how the feud began and how it’s been able to spin out of control.


    The irony of it all is that Wellesley-Wood was Roger Kebble’s good idea. It was Kebble who, in 1999, thought Wellesley-Wood would be a perfect candidate to take the non-executive chairmanship of Durban Roodepoort Deep (now renamed as DRDGOLD) in an effort to meet the company’s corporate governance standards. Wellesley-Wood was already in SA, having been nominated by British stockbroker Mercury Asset Management, a shareholder in Western Areas, to sit on that company’s board. His nomination followed the sale in 1998 of a 50% stake in Western Areas’ mine South Deep by Brett Kebble to Placer Dome.


    As a result, Mercury was anxious to receive a form of special dividend. Wellesley-Wood, plucked from relative obscurity at Kleinwort Dresdner, where he was working as a banker, was their man in Johannesburg.


    Wellesley-Wood proved himself an able lieutenant for Roger Kebble: he was a miner, had corporate banking experience – he even loved rugby. He also, principally, resolved DRD’s board composition problems. Wellesley-Wood also sat on a special committee during 2000 that cleared the Kebbles of wrongdoing following attempts by them to torpedo Harmony Gold’s hostile takeover of Randfontein Estates, a company the Kebbles wanted to use to help drive the finances of a Canadian-listed firm.


    However, soon after taking a seat at DRD, something changed. Mike Prinsloo, then CEO of DRD, was ousted and replaced by Wellesley-Wood. That proved to be the final chapter in the fleeting moment of peace between the two men.


    In a directive to DRD shareholders in 2003, Wellesley-Wood declared soon after his appointment in May, 2000 that he had “. . .received information regarding possible irregularities in DRD of a very serious nature and at a high level of management”. Less than two years later, Wellesley-Wood also ousted Roger Kebble from DRD’s board, a move conducted with surprising élan given that it was a brutal moment, even for an old mining dog like Kebble. Kebble was given the deputy chairman’s role in a sunset period that lasted mere months.


    Nobody was in any doubt regarding what was happening: Wellesley-Wood declared to a surprised audience that the departure of Roger Kebble from DRD was a final goodbye to the “K” Factor. Kebble, sitting in the audience, was ashen-faced and furious.


    What followed was an intricate and costly forensic odyssey, estimated by the Kebbles to be in excess of R90m, to uncover the complicated business activities of the Kebbles. These activities left a paper trail that originated in Johannesburg, passed through Perth in Western Australia and ended up in South Sumatra, an Indonesian island. From events traced back to 1998, DRD had spent R123m in May 2002 on an Indonesian mine – Rawas – that had no intrinsic value. Shares had also been illegally issued, DRD alleged.


    Legal suits were launched in Johannesburg and Western Australia’s Supreme Court, the aim of which was to prove that Western Areas director John Stratton and DRD director Charles Mostert had allegedly colluded with nominee companies to fraudulently siphon monies from shareholders.


    At root, though, was Roger Kebble, who had sat atop the company in the Nineties directing affairs – even without the knowledge, it would appear, of his CEO, Mike Prinsloo.


    Amazingly, the listed entity, DRD, sailed through the crisis relatively unharmed. In yet another irony, Roger Kebble had helped promote DRD as a magically geared trading stock in the minds of North American investors. This was a legacy of branding that completely inured the company against the corporate shocks that now raged around it between 1999 and 2003.


    Critics of Wellesley-Wood thought he was marshalling public opinion against the Kebbles in order to deflect attention away from DRD’s poor operational performance. Its mines, as Wellesley-Wood recently conceded, were always “crap”. But if Wellesley-Wood had also contributed towards the legacy for DRD it was to have added offshore mines to its portfolio.


    Now, finally, the rebranded DRDGOLD has the chance to establish a track record of making profits rather than headlines.


    Unsurprisingly, the feud between the Kebbles and Wellesley-Wood has boiled up again. Roger Kebble, now cracking the whip at Simmer & Jack Mines, has accused DRDGOLD of having a long-standing agenda of closing down SA mines. “Most of the monies raised over the past few years by DRDGOLD have been spent on assets outside of the country, which has left the SA assets undercapitalised,” Kebble said after bidding – and failing – to buy DRDGOLD’s operating and provisionally liquidated mines.


    Nobody seriously believes that Wellesley-Wood wants to close down the company’s mines or that he’d sell his existing SA mines to Kebble. But in the eyes of the National Union of Mineworkers, Kebble has cast Wellesley-Wood as a ravenous uitlander. Offers recently to settle all outstanding legal issues between Kebble and Wellesley-Wood are simply disingenuous noises in this corporate cabaret.


    Nothing has changed. Kebble wants his company back and thinks that Wellesley-Wood has never been at his weakest than now. The saga continues.

    @GO,

    würd´ich die Institutionellen schätzen, hätte ich

    Anteile an einem GM-Fonds.




    Das kann jedes Schweinchen für sich besser.


    Schweinchen DICK ist übrigens die Premium-Variante

    von Schweinchen SCHLAU. So ein Premium-Pig


    benutzt Briefmarken nicht zu Frankieren

    sondern trägt sie mit Pinzetten umher.



    Halten wir noch etwas Bimbes zurück für den Fall,

    daß wider Erwarten nochmal Aderlaß stattfinden sollte.



    Gruss


    Gogh

    Da wird man noch lange Geduld haben müssen.

    Die Institutionellen sind raus, da zähle ich SIEGEL übrigens mit zu.

    Den Kurs machen die Freaks, die Schweinchen Schlaus

    und die Tombola-Gewinner. Da tritt aber zur Zeit einer dem

    anderen auf den Nikolaussack. Da geht nichts vom Fleck.


    Vom Hippo hab´ich schon soviel erzählt. Da belästige ich diesmal

    nicht mit.




    Gruß

    Gogh,

    der sich selbst als Freak eingereiht sieht

    Im Moment scheint mir Harmony die beste RSA-Minem-Aktie zu sein.


    Immerhin ist eine ansehnliche Horde Klammeraffen

    dem Ruf der Sirene gefolgt. Sie haben hervorragende

    GFI-Aktien abgeliefert. Dafür bekamen sie Harmony,

    aber zuwenige. Dadurch wurde Harmony werthaltiger

    (und die Klammeraffen ärmer).


    Harmony ist nicht so schlecht wie der Kurs glauben macht.



    Wirkt wirr.



    GM sind n i c h t wie Uncle Ben´s Reis: klumpt nie, gelingt immer!



    (Wenn Ihr gleich das Martinshorn hört, werd ich im einarmigen Kittel abgeholt)



    Gruss


    Gogh

    Aflease ist zur Zeit Hippo´s liebster Tümpel zum Suhlen.


    Da sollte man als Anleger jetzt nicht reinspringen.


    Zuviel Matsch!



    gogh




    Aus MINING WEEKLY vom 04.04.05



    Aflease to restart gold production in second quarter
    --------------------------------------------------------------------------------

    South African mining company Aflease, which terminated gold production at its operations last year due to loses incurred because of the strong rand, said last week that the first of its three high-margin operations would become operational during the second quarter of this year.


    The company said its Bonanza South mine will begin generating a revenue stream, while its other high-margin operations, Modder East and the Dominion uranium project, require significant expenditure for feasibility and exploration drilling.


    “It is pleasing to note that with the operational restructuring, and despite the continued strengthening of the rand, the large operating losses of 2003 have been reversed,” Alfease said in a statement, adding that a 99% improvement to the cash operating loss of 2003 has been achieved for the year ended December 31, 2004.


    “The financial statements for the year 2004 reflect the initial success of the 'strong-rand strategy' that was developed and implemented towards the end of 2003.


    “This strategy required that the operations be restructured, that the company develops its high-margin assets and continues with focused exploration,” the group stated.


    Despite the additional expenditure on exploration drilling at Modder East and the Dominion uranium project, Aflease operating loss for the year, before other costs, reflects a 56% improvement - to a R47-million loss.


    The implementation of the strong-rand strategy also required that the company raise sufficient cash to ensure that it is fully funded.


    As a consequence, a number of nonreoccurring costs resulted in the net loss attributable to shareholders for 2004 being R87,3-million, a 79% improvement over the previous year.


    During the current financial year, an extensive independent and internal review was performed of the rehabilitation obligations at the operations. The preliminary closure cost estimate for the existing infrastructure at the Klerksdorp operations amounts to R22,6-million.


    Headline losses for the period under review are R80,5-million.


    During the current financial year, the company acquired 9,4-million ordinary shares of R0,01 each, fully paid up, in the issued share capital of Randgold against the allotment and issue to Randgold of 9,4-million ordinary shares of R0,02 each, fully paid up, in the issued share capital of Aflease.


    The terms of the transaction included the intention of the company to dispose of the Randgold swap shares in a commercially prudent manner, in consultation with Randgold.


    Aflease noted that the provisional financial results for the year ended December 31, 2004, have been prepared on the going concern basis.


    “Aflease is certain that it has sufficient funding to continue with its current capital programmes which will bring its future cash generating projects into production,” the group commented.

    @Eldo,

    wie ich an Deinem letzten Posting sehe, sind wir

    mit der Einschätzung garnicht soweit auseinander.

    Und die Kommunikation funktioniert, was will man mehr!



    Die tatsächlich ausgeführten Trades entscheidet oft der Hauch


    eines SchmetterlingsFlügels. Über solche Kleinigkeiten braucht

    man nicht streiten.



    Gruss


    Gogh

    Vor vielen Jahren konnte man als Schüler die

    Lehrer zum Schäumen bringen, wenn man

    Brecht zitierte mit "das Gründen einer Bank

    ist 100mal schlimmer als eine Bank zu überfallen."


    Als Schüler sagte man das, ohne es selbst richtig verstanden zu haben.


    In Wirklichkeit gilt das nicht nur für das Gründen von


    Banken sondern für jede "Juristische Person" und

    exponential für das Gründen von Tochter- und Enkel-AG´s.



    Es braucht mir niemand beizupflichten. Es reicht wenn

    die Anwendung auf diesen Fall gedanklich nachvollzogen wird.

    Nun gibt es Leute wie Putin, die haben das Wort Durchgriffshaftung

    nicht unbedingt im Sprachschatz; dafür wenden sie es wie im

    Fall YUKOS einfach an. Es gibt eine Vergleichbarkeit/Affinität der


    Wirtschaftsstandards zwischen dem heutigen Rußland und RSA.


    Norlisk versus GFI par example.



    Schweinchen Schlau kanne sehr schnell im Kerker


    auf den Schlachter warten müssen.

    Und nocheinmal: Vivat YUKOS-Aktionäre.



    Muß nicht so kommen, aber die Schweinchen Schlaus

    ziehen so was an.



    gogh

    Jeder stelle sich vor, er sei zum "vorläufigen Insolvenzverwalter"

    der "Nord-West-Tochter" von DRD ernannt worden.



    Die Frage ist nicht, welche Krawatte zieht man in so einem Fall an.




    Schon eher, packt man Schweinchen Schlau am Ringelschwanz?
    Weniger prosaisch: Durchgriffshaftung



    Und:


    Verjagt man das Hippo oder zeigt man ihm Kußhand?
    Nur zeigt man dem Hippo Kußhand, wird es schwer
    mit der Durchgriffshaftung.



    Praktische Lösung: Leere Konservendosen mit langer Schnur am Ringelschwanz von Schweinchen Schlau befestigen.
    Hippo erstmal großes Schwarzbrot in den Rachen werfen.


    Merry go round


    gogh

    TVX-Acquisition in 2003 wird somdergeprüft. O weia.


    TVX-Aktionäre wurden beim merger zu einem Super-Kurs mit Kinross Aktien abgefunden.

    Hatte selbst TVX Aktien und schon 95% Buchverlust.
    Habe dann als Penny-Stock einige hundert k nachgekauft.
    Beim merger war der Verlust aufgeholt und noch ca. 100% Gewinn da.


    Verstanden hab´ich das nie. Nur gefallen hat es mir.



    gogh



    Kinross Gold to issue biweekly financial updates until filings are current
    ========================================================
    Canadian Press - Friday April 1, 2005



    TORONTO (CP) - Kinross Gold, one of North America's largest gold


    producers, said Friday it will begin providing biweekly updates to the


    market until it is current with financial reports that should have been filed


    with regulators by March 31.




    Kinross said previously it would be unable to file 2004 year-end audited


    financial statements and related documents until it resolves accounting


    issues related to its 2003 merger with TVX Gold Inc. and Echo Bay Mines Ltd.



    The Toronto-based company (TSX:K) said Friday it expects to receive a


    report from an independent valuation team next week with respect to the


    purchase price allocation and goodwill that arose from the merger.