Beiträge von gogh

    Smartie,

    nimm mal an Toronto ist eine solide Börse.

    So eine prüft inhaltlich bevor sie ein neues

    Listing vergibt.

    Und nimm weiter an, jemand möchte dort eine

    AG listen lassen, die direkt neben dem

    kaputten Reaktor von Tschernobyl eine

    Hühnerfarm betreiben will.

    Würde ein derariges Börseneinführungsprospekt

    angenommen?


    Soviel zum Sinn des Mergers mit dem leeren

    notierten AG-Mantel.



    gruss


    gogh

    aus MINEWEB vom ß5.11.04


    Aflease starts selling Randgold shares
    ================================
    By: Gareth Tredway



    Afrikander Lease (Aflease), the junior gold and uranium company, says it has started to sell down its Randgold & Exploration shares and paying off its bank loans.


    In a share swap agreement announced earlier this year, Aflease was given 9.4 million shares in the resource investment company in a share swap and loan agreement that will be paid back with Aflease equity.


    Aflease said on Friday that it had sold 2.4 million Randgold & Exploration shares to pay back R35 million of its debt facility with Nedcor bank. According to Mineweb’s calculations this works out to a price of R14.58 a share. Randgold shares were trading at R14.75 on Friday afternoon (SA time).


    The company says the remaining 7 million Randgold shares will be sold over the next six to nine months in “smaller blocks” to fund its Bonanza gold project, pay for corporate costs and manage liquidity requirements.


    “Cash flows will be further enhanced with the commissioning of the Bonanza South project during the second quarter of 2005,” said the company, “The Bonanza South project remains on schedule and within budget."


    Gold is not the company’s only mineral, as it also holds some of South Africa’s largest uranium reserves. Over the next few years the company will conduct studies to verify just how viable a uranium mine will be.


    Neal Froneman says that initial studies have shown that a uranium price of around $18/lb would make the mine feasible. As of November 1, uranium had a weekly spot price of around $20.25/lb.

    Zitat

    Original von Ulfur
    Die Standard Bank scheint Thistle abgeschrieben zu haben, denn sie hat die Schulden von Thistle an Meridian Capital, Bermuda, verkauft.


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    Schulden kann man nicht verkaufen. Dies sagt

    etwas über die fachliche Kompetenz.

    Nun gut.


    Verkauft werden Forderungen.

    Für die Zukunft interessiert der Käufer.

    Über den find´ich auf die Schnelle nichts.

    Von den genannten Beteilig.Ges. des Käufers

    sind PKZ und NLG gróße, profitable Unternehmen und

    entsprechend hoch ist deren MKP an der Börse Toronto.


    Trotzdem ist unklar:

    Es graut der Morgen

    oder

    Es graut dem Morgen.


    gogh

    Kinross stock up on reserves comment, gold price
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    REUTERS, Thu Nov 4, 2004 12:43 PM ET



    VANCOUVER, British Columbia, Nov 4 (Reuters) - Shares in Kinross


    Gold Corp. (K.TO: Quote, Profile, Research) jumped 7 percent on


    Thursday on reports that its chief executive expects its unmined cache of


    gold to rise by about a sixth by yearend and as a higher bullion price


    lifted stocks across the sector.



    Shares of Kinross, the world's seventh largest gold producer, rose 59


    Canadian cents to C$9.32 on the Toronto Stock on Thursday afternoon.



    Salman Partners analyst Haytham Hodaly said that Kinross chief


    executive Bob Buchan was reported to have told delegates at a



    conference that the Toronto-based miner expects to end the year with 16


    million ounces of gold in reserves, up from 14.1 million at the end of


    2003.


    By its own admission, a shortage of reserves is Kinross's single biggest


    problem, with its mines expected to run out of gold sooner than the


    world's other big gold producers. To address this Kinross has made


    several acquisitions and has an active exploration program.




    "With the gold price up, Kinross, as a high cost producer, is one of the


    most leveraged," Hodaly said, explaining how the stock also tends to


    move up and down in greater increments than others with a rising and


    falling bullion price.



    The gold price hit a 16-year high of $432.95 an ounce in London earlier


    on Thursday on the back of a weakening U.S. dollar. A softer greenback


    makes dollar-priced gold cheaper to buy in other currencies.

    das Überschriftzitat sind Morsezeichen aus einer

    mir femden Welt. Reine Sprachmelodie.



    Heute wurde erstmals über die Verlängerung der Regentschaft

    des Caligula der neuen Welt nachgedacht.

    Da kommt noch heftigeres beim PoG. In Bälde wie

    früher die Beamten sagten.



    gogh



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    promenade á cheval au bord d´un lac

    Edgar Degas, 1860

    Gouache aus einem Skizzenheft

    Business Report vom 04.11.04



    Sasol favours Nigeria as it rationalises oil exploration
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    November 4, 2004


    Sasol would abandon exploration in Equatorial Guinea "in favour of


    concentrating on its emergent exploration programme in Nigeria", it said yesterday,



    Sasol, which is awaiting Nigerian government approval for two new


    licences, is trying to expand in oil and natural gas to cut dependence on


    chemicals and the production of fuel from coal.

    Aus Business Report vom 02.11.04


    Sasol partners with Malaysia's Petronas
    ===============================



    Kuala Lumpur - Malaysia's national oil and gas company Petronas on


    Tuesday announced its Petronas International unit has signed an


    agreement with Sasol to create South Africa's largest liquid fuels business.




    Petronas, together with their respective black economic empowerment


    partners Worldwide African Investment Holdings and a Sasol

    empowerment entity, Tshwarisano LFB Investment, have signed the


    agreement.



    Under the agreement Sasol and Engen, a South African oil refiner which


    is 80 percent held by Petronas, will merge their liquid fuel businesses


    into a new joint venture to be known as Uhambo Oil.



    The company's headquarters are to be located in Cape Town.




    "This joint venture is a positive and exciting development for Petronas,"


    Hassan Marican, Petronas president and chief executive officer said.




    On a pro-forma basis, Uhambo is expected to report sales of R33 billion


    ($5.36 billion) and earnings of R1.2 billion rand for the 2004 financial


    year.


    Petronas will hold a 37.5 percent stake in Uhambo, Sasol a 37.5 percent


    stake and Worldwide and Tshwarisano will take a 12.5 percent stake each.



    Petronas said subject to official approval, Uhambo will be the leading


    South African liquid fuel refining, marketing and distribution business.



    It said Uhambo will have an estimated market share of about 33 percent


    in South African white petroleum products.



    Petronas' Hassan, who is also the non-executive chairman of Engen, will


    be appointed as non-executive chairman of Uhambo while Jock


    McKenzie will be offered the position of chief executive officer in January 2005. - AFP



    Published on the web by Business Report on November 2, 2004.

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    nur um eine Preisvorstellung zu geben:


    mindestens ca. 5 bis 10 Unzen Gold

    Und das nur im Europäischen Kunsthandel,

    wo so etwas nur sporadisch auftaucht.

    Dürfte in Taiwan oder sonst in Asiatischer

    Metropole das 10-fache kosten.

    Weil man da weiß, was es ist.


    gogh




    Pi disc with carved chih dragon

    and ch'ang-le characters


    Eastern Han Dynasty (25-220 AD)


    Width: 19.6 cm
    ============


    Diameter of disc: 13.47 cm
    =====================


    Thickness: 0.4 cm
    ===============



    This greenish jade disc is mottled brown in places and semi-


    translucent. This exceptional jade was ground and carved using three


    techniques; openwork, engraving, and low-relief carving. It can also be


    divided into three parts; a central disc (with a hole in the middle)


    decorated with raised dots, an openwork rim around the disc (decorated


    with phoenixes and dragons), and an openwork decoration at the top


    above the border.

    Nach der nonverbalen Einstimmung (die Ehefrau

    von Kerry, verwitwete Heinz-Ketchup, hatte eigens ein Jugend-Selbstbildnis

    beigesteuert, dafür nochmals herzlichen Dank)

    ============================================

    Die eine Möglichkeit ist Blattschuß (das ist vereinfacht

    der Siegel-Standpunkt).


    Die andere Variante.

    Formal Reverse Split aus 30 Aktien wird 1.

    Gleichzeitig Kapitalherabsetzung 90%,

    d. h. 90% des nominellen Eigenkapitals (Deutsche

    Vokabel wäre Grundkapital) wird ausgebucht.

    Wiederum gleichzeitig Kapitalerhöhung auf das

    ursprüngliche Grundkapital gegen Bareinlage.

    Die Altaktionäre bleiben dabei ausgeschlossen.


    Etwas in der Art wird kommen.

    Wer etwas versteht und zusätzlich Glück hat,

    Und wer nichts versteht und Glück hat

    werden profitieren.

    (für den Methusalem Komplot:. Der Unterschied zu TVX

    besteht darin, daß THT keine schmutzigen Warrants

    ausgegeben hatte.)


    gruss


    gogh

    dann aufgefahren in den Himmel

    und nochmal zurückgekehrt

    und dann wieder aufgefahren.


    Wie lange es bei Lazarus gedauert hat, ist nicht überliefert

    Und wie lange es bei THT dauern wird, ist besonders ungewiß.


    Sehen wir´s trivial

    [Blockierte Grafik: http://www.bernhardknaus-art.de/bilder/Ramos_Rounder.JPG]


    Mel Ramos, 1999, Litho, "The Rounder"


    Also dieses Posting befaßt sich mit dem Timing.

    Ist 0,055 Can$ noch zu früh?

    Vielleicht nicht, aber es wird so schnell auch nicht wieder hoch gehen.


    (Das vorhergehende Posting analysiert die Frage des Ob.)

    für alle, die es ganz genau wissen wollen

    gogh



    Harmony bid hits pothole


    Business Report,October 29, 2004


    By Nicky Smith


    Johannesburg - Harmony Gold's brazen bid to take control of larger rival Gold Fields in a R50 billion hostile takeover may have hit a fatal pothole.


    Harmony may be stopped from voting any American depositary receipts (ADRs) it obtains through an early settlement offer, the first of a two-part offer, because this will not appear on the share register.


    By the regulations of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), if a shareholder meeting is to be convened, a shareholder register profile needs to be recorded.


    The Bank of New York, which manages the ADRs on behalf of Gold Fields, filed a record date of October 29 with the NYSE, on which the ADRs trade, ahead of its extraordinary general meeting.


    A date still has to be set for the meeting, though it will be held by December 7. The major resolution to be voted on is Gold Fields' proposed reverse listing of its non-Southern African Development Community assets into Toronto-listed Iamgold.


    The Iamgold deal failing to win shareholder approval is central to Harmony's bid succeeding.


    Harmony's early settlement offer closes on November 26, meaning the company will only own those Gold Fields shares that were tendered under the early settlement offer, nearly a month after the record date.


    Buyers of ADRs after today will not be eligible to vote at the Gold Fields meeting.


    According to Gold Fields' latest annual report, 29 percent of its shareholders are North American.


    Harmony's plan is to secure as much as 34.9 percent of Gold Fields stock under the early settlement offer, combine this with the 20.03 percent shareholding belonging to Norilsk Nickel, and vote against the Iamgold transaction. Norilsk has given its irrevocable support to Harmony's bid.



    The deal structure is particularly attractive to US hedge funds.


    One of Harmony's UK bankers, who declined to be named, believed the record date would be contested.


    Willie Jacobsz, Gold Fields' spokesperson, said anything could be legally challenged "but it is our belief this cannot be challenged".


    He was referring to Gold Fields' application to the high court to declare the offer null and void, arguing that in an all-paper offer Harmony should have issued a prospectus to Gold Fields shareholders.


    Harmony would have to issue more than 623 million new shares to effect the offer.


    Secondly, Gold Fields' financial director, Nick Holland, said there was also a competition tribunal filing in play, and today the Securities Regulation Panel would hear a complaint brought by Gold Fields.


    Harmony has branded these moves as desperate, as attempts to frustrate its offer, saying that Gold Fields management seemed to be acting in its own interest and not in that of shareholders.


    Harmony chief executive Bernard Swanepoel said: "All of these actions ... amount to nothing more than an attempt to prevent shareholders from participating in Harmony's premium offer and benefiting from the improved performance that Harmony's proven management team can deliver."



    American depositary receipts


    An American depositary receipt is a certificate issued by a US bank containing a statement that a specific number of shares in a foreign company has been deposited with it. The certificates are denominated in US dollars and can be traded as a security on US markets. - The Oxford Reference Dictionary

    aus Busyness Day vom 29.10.2004

    .............Oder wenn der Einbeinige den Elefanten jagt

    gogh



    Gold Fields has nest egg of about R5bn


    --------------------------------------------------------------------------------

    Gold Fields (GFI), which is embroiled in a bitter battle in a bid to stave off


    a hostile takeover bid from rival gold mining group Harmony (HAR), is


    sitting on a veritable war chest.



    The gold miner revealed that it has cash reserves of almost 5 billion


    rand. And this will not be needed to push through the planned merger


    with Canada's IAMGold, which Harmony is seeking to block.



    According to chief financial officer Nick Holland, the group has already


    deployed about a billion rand of the money raised from the Mvela deal -


    of which about 600 million rand was being spent on the group's South


    African operations and about 400 million rand on its offshore operations.




    Holland also disclosed that Gold Fields has very low debt levels.

    Gerätegeld z. B. Spatengeld
    =========



    Sammelbegriff für vormünzliche (prämonetäre) Zahlungsmittel, die in


    Form von Äxten, Beilen, Messern, Hacken, Spaten, Angelhaken, Wurf-,


    Pfeil- oder Lanzenspitzen aus Metall hergestellt wurden. Da nicht


    jedermann solche Geräte schmieden konnte, bedurfte es einer


    Arbeitsteilung. Deshalb stellt das Gerätegeld eine höhere Stufe als das


    Naturalgeld dar.



    Die Geräte und Waffen dienten wohl zunächst als


    Gebrauchsgegenstände wie auch als Wertmesser für den Tausch.


    Dabei hingen die Formen wohl von der jeweiligen Kultur der einzelnen


    Völker ab: In Hackbauernkulturen entwickelten sich landwirtschaftliche


    Geräte, in Jagdkulturen Waffen zum Gerätegeld. Viele Funde von


    Kümmer- oder Schwundformen, die beispielsweise durch


    Verkleinerungen oder den Wegfall der Schneide zum Gebrauch als


    Geräte nicht mehr geeignet waren, lassen auf eine


    Auseinanderentwicklung von Gebrauchs- und Geldwert schließen.
    ===========================================



    Gelegentlich gab es aber auch Prunk- oder Wucherformen, verzierte und


    vergrößerte Formen der Geräte, die wohl einen höheren Wert darstellten.


    Möglicherweise fielen diese Formen mit der Entwicklung der Technik


    des Messens und Wägens weg.


    Das alte chinesische Bronzegeld zeigt noch Anklänge an Hacke, Spaten


    oder Messer (Gerätemünzen). In Afrika deuten Funde von Messern,


    Wurfeisen, Lanzenspitzen, Pfeilspitzen oder Stäben auf Gerätegeld hin.


    Neben Doppeläxten und Beilen (Beilgeld), die sich u.a. auf Kreta und


    Griechenland nachweisen lassen, finden sich bei Homer auch Hinweise


    auf Dreifüße und Becken (Lebes). Auch Bratspieße (Obeliskoi) dienten


    wohl als Geld (daraus wird die Münzbezeichnung Obolos abgeleitet).


    Drahtgeld mit formalem Anklang an Angelhaken (Larin), das noch im 17.


    Jh. verwendet wurde, zeugt von der Form der Fanggeräte, die die



    Bewohner vom Persischen Golf über das Arabische Meer bis zum Golf


    von Bengalen für den Fischfang benutzten. Allerdings ist heute


    umstritten, ob es sich bei Larin um ein den Europäern fremdes


    Münzgeld oder um eine vormünzliche Geldform handelt.