Gold Anti-Trust Action Committee Plans International Conference In Yukon.

DALLAS -- The Gold Anti-Trust Action Committee will host an international conference Aug. 8 and 9 in Dawson City in Canada's Yukon, the center of the Klondike Gold Rush at the turn of the 19th century, to discuss the suppression of the prices of gold and silver and the need for new representation of precious metals investors and the mining industry.

The announcement was made by GATA Chairman Bill Murphy at the Vancouver Resources Investment Conference in Vancouver, British Columbia.

"Since Dawson City represents the golden excitement of the past, this historic location is just the place for our conference as we enter a new time of excitement for gold," Murphy said. "We will call our gathering Gold Rush 21."

Murphy listed these goals for the conference:

--Expand GATA's role as an advocate for the precious metals industry.

--Offer the mining industry and precious metals investors an alternative to the World Gold Council, which represents no more than 20 gold companies and has done little for those it purports to represent. GATA will seek to include more of the industry and will not align itself with the bullion banks and jewelry interests, which want precious metals prices suppressed. More than 40 mining and precious metals-related companies have supported GATA in recent years, and GATA believes that it can raise that total to 200.

--Spread GATA's message that the gold and silver markets are not free and not fair, and develop ways to change that. Renowned gold experts from five continents will come to the conference and explain and discuss the price manipulation committed by the gold and silver cartels. The conference will show who has done it, why they did it, and what can be done about it.

--Give conference participants a memorable trip to Klondike Gold Rush country so they can see what a gold rush was and what one might be again. GATA expects that conference participants will forge memorable relationships.

--Receive suggestions from conference participants about how GATA can best build long-term support from the precious metals industry.

The speakers at Gold Rush 21 will include:

--Ferdinand Lips of Zurich, Switzerland. He has been managing director of Rothschild Bank AG in Zurich, CEO of his own private bank (Bank Lips), and a director of Randgold Resources, Durban Roodeport Deep, and Afrikander Lease. Now he is chairman and manager of the Top-Gold Fund, based in Liechtenstein. He has written four books on the gold market, his latest being "Gold Wars."

--Peter George of Cape Town, South Africa. A graduate of Oxford University in England and the University of Cape Town, where he received his MBA, George was a member of the Johannesburg Stock Exchange from 1969-1981 and was senior partner of the Johannesburg stockbrokerage Saunders & Taylor. He became known as South Africa's "Mister Gold," during that period. Peter helped organize the GATA African Gold Summit in Durban, South Africa, in May 2001. Five sub-Saharan African nations attended that conference, along with representatives of major South African gold producers and the South African mine workers union. The summit was heavily reported by the South African Broadcasting Co.

--John Embry of Toronto. Just as George is known as "Mister Gold" in South Africa, Embry is becoming known as "Mister Gold" in Canada. After an illustrious career at the Royal Bank of Canada, where he oversaw $5 billion in mutual fund assets and recorded an astounding return of 153 percent in 2002, in 2003 Embry became chief investment strategist at Sprott Asset Management. He was co-author of Sprott's important research study, "Not Free, Not Fair: The Long-Term Manipulation of the Gold Price," which validated GATA's work. There is no more admired figure in the mining industry.

--Hugo Salinas Price, who may be regarded as Mexico's "Mister Silver." Salinas Price is leading the campaign to remonetize silver in his country, the world's foremost producer of silver. Last November governors of all 31 Mexican states sent a letter to the Ways and Means Committee of the Mexican House of Representatives to urge approval of legislation to remonetize silver. Nearly 200 Mexican journalists signed a declaration in support of the legislation. A poll by the Mexican television network TV Azteca found that 96 percent of viewers approved the remonetization of silver. It seems that the only major opponent of the silver legislation in Mexico is Mexico's central bank.

--Reginald H. Howe of Massachusetts. A successful trial lawyer in Boston and proprietor of the GoldenSextant.com Internet site, Howe took on the entire Gold Cartel in U.S. District Court in Boston in 2001 by suing the Bank for International Settlements, the U.S. Federal Reserve Board, the U.S. Treasury Department, J.P. Morgan Chase, Citigroup, Goldman Sachs Group, and Deutsche Bank AG. Howe stood against more than a dozen of the highest-powered lawyers in the world. His lawsuit has been renewed by Blanchard Coin & Bullion's suit against J.P. Morgan Chase and Barrick Gold in U.S. District Court in New Orleans.

--James Turk of New Hampshire. Turk, a former banker and manager of the commodity department of the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority, is editor of the Freemarket Gold & Money Report and founder of GoldMoney.com. He is also the co-author of "The Coming Collapse of the Dollar," just published by Doubleday.

These men fight every day on behalf of gold and silver investors and mining companies.

Facilities in Dawson City are very limited, so GATA will have to restrict invitations to mining company executives and investment fund managers, the people who are in the best position to help us push the industry forward. Mining company executives and fund managers who would like to attend Gold Rush 21 should write to GATA by e-mail at [e-mail] and confirmations will be sent soon after that. More information about the conference can be found at its Internet site: http://www.goldrush21.com.

GATA extends its profound gratitude to Samex Mining and Klondike Star for their exceptional efforts behind the scenes to make this international conference a huge success.