Hecla to put $30 million into Venezuela mine

[seemslikeadream]

Hecla to put $30 million into Venezuela mine
COEUR D'ALENE -- Hecla Mining Co. officials say a new gold mine in eastern Venezuela will help the company meet its goal to double low-cost gold production within five years.



The company expects the mine will eventually produce about 100,000 ounces of gold a year. The Mina Isidora could be ready for mining by late 2005.

Hecla produced about 200,000 ounces of gold last year, and has become Venezuela's largest gold producer and exporter. The company also operates the La Camorra mine in eastern Venezuela, which produced nearly 130,000 ounces last year. The two mines will share milling facilities, which will lower operating costs

http://www.magicvalley.com/news/business/index.asp?StoryID=5195


from the gossip section
Former President George Bush and former First Lady Barbara Bush will be keynote speakers at the 44th Annual International Franchise Association convention March 7, in Las Vegas.

The IFA will have the annual meeting March 6-9 at the MGM Grand Hotel & Casino.

President and Mrs. Bush will highlight the opening general session of the IFA convention and will discuss today’s environment and the challenges in which business executives must operate.

Barrick Gold Corp.

Barrick Gold Corp., based in Toronto, Can., announced that Mike Feehan has been appointed as general manager for Barrick Goldstrike Mines Inc. in Elko.

Feehan will have full responsibility for all of Goldstrike’s operations and will report to Greg Lang, vice president, North America.

Barrick’s Goldstrike property has the open-pit Betze-Post Mine and the underground Meikle Mine.

http://www.rgj.com/news/stories/html/2003/12/16/59326.php


This is how I started my day.

In the car on the way to jr. high with 13yr old son
base wayyyyyyy up

MY UNITED STATES OF WHATEVER - Liam Lynch:

I went down to the beach and saw Kiki, she was, like, all "Ehh",
And I was like, "Whatever".
Then this chick comes up to me and she's all like, "Hey, aren't you that dude?",
And I'm like, "Yeah, whatever".
So later I'm at the pool hall and this girl comes up and she's like, "Aww",
And I'm like, "Yeah, whatever".

Coz this is my United States of Whatever,
And this is my United States of Whatever,
And this is my United States of Whatever.

And then it's three AM and I'm on the corner, wearing my leather,
This dude comes up and he's, like, "Hey, punk", I'm, like, "Yeah, whatever".
Then I'm throwing dice in the alley,
Officer Leroy comes up and is like, "Hey, I thought I told you..."
And I'm like, "Yeah, whatever".
And then up comes Zafo, I'm like, "Yo, Zafo, what's up?"
He's like, "Nothin" and I'm like, "That's cool".

Coz this is my United States of Whatever,
And this is my United States of Whatever.

[leftyandproud]

1. what the hell...

is the meaning of this post?

[seemslikeadream]

2. Very sorry I'll try and clear that up

Didn't mean to upset anyone.

Gold mines - George Bush Sr.

There always seems to be a connection. And as far as the tune, it was apropriate for the news. My United States of Whatever



Business Founders, Presidents, Chairmen -
There are literally hundreds of Dekes in this category; this is just a sprinkling of some of the more familiar names.

John F. Akers, Phi - I.B.M.
Henry B. Thayer, Pi - A.T.&T.
Owen D. Young, Sigma Tau - General Electric
Edward Bausch, Beta Phi - Bausch & Lomb Opticals
M. C. D. Borden, Phi
Howard S. Borde, Phi - Borden's Products
Harold H. Swift, Delta Delta - Swift and Company
James H. Evans, Iota Union Pacific Railway
William W. Wrigley, Phi - Wrigley's Gum
Howard Heinz, Phi - Heinz 57 Varieties
Howard Johnson, Phi - Motor Inns
James M. Gamble, Lambda - Proctor and Gamble
Sidney M. Colgate, Phi
James C. Colgate, Mu
Gilbert Colgate, Phi - Colgate-Palmolive
Herbert F. Perkins, Phi - International Harvester
Walter Hoving, Upsilon - Tiffany and Co.
Alfred S. Bloomingdale, Upsilon - Diner's Club
William H. Morton, Pi - American Express Co.
Joseph C. Wilson, Beta Phi - Xerox
R. L. Agassiz, Alpha - Calumet & Hecla Mining Corp.
Joseph Kerr Cass, Lambda - Westvaco
Adrian R. Fisher, Phi Chi - Johns-Manville
Willard C. Gulick, Mu - B.F. Goodrich
Herb Kelleher, Gamma Phi - Southwest Airlines
Roger Mitsui, Delta Chi - Mitsui Products, Japan
Louis Bantle, Phi Gamma - U.S. Tobacco
Cyrus S. Eaton, Jr., Mu (International industrialist)
Frederick N. Schwartz, Gamma Phi - Bristol-Myers Corp.
Hays Clark, Delta Chi - Avon Products
Fred Smith, Phi - Federal Express
Hecla Mining Co
http://www.duke.edu/web/dke/alumhist.html



Congress has acted over the years to rein in some abuses allowed under the act, but problems persist, and the debate over the future of Western lands continues. New mining regulations designed to protect taxpayers and the environment went into effect just hours before George W. Bush became president -- and he soon moved to get rid of them.
In central Idaho, Hecla Mining Co.'s Grouse Creek mine, hailed as a marvel of modern mining when it opened in 1994, has slowly leaked cyanide into the ground and into a nearby creek.
http://216.239.39.104/search?q=cache:nFUUSGoQamYJ:seattlepi.nwsource.com/specials/mining/26875_mine11.shtml++Hecla+Mining+Co.+george+bush&hl=en

War is Golden for the Bush Administration
By CHRIS FLOYD

The opening of a long-delayed civil suit in a London courtroom; a brief, buried article on a judicial nomination; a fluctuation in the commodities market: three mundane, seemingly-unrelated items in the news last week that combined to give a fleeting glimpse of the ugly reality behind the frantic, diversionary façade of the "civilized world."

The London case involves our old friends, BCCI, the international bank that served as the front for a global crime ring involving top officials and Establishment worthies in dozens of "civilized" nations. BCCI ran guns to Saddam and other heavies, funded Pakistan's illegal nuclear weapons program, laundered drug profits, peddled prostitutes, doled out bribes, served as a conduit for covert CIA operations--and, through its connections to the bin Laden family, gave George W. Bush a sweetheart loan of $25 million to bail out one of his many business failures.

One of the respectable organizations tainted by the ring was the Bank of England, which was the financial regulator for BCCI when the front finally collapsed in 1991--leaving its legitimate creditors some $11 billion in the hole. Not surprisingly, some of these victims filed suit against ye olde B of E, claiming that its oversight of BCCI left something to be desired. But successive British governments--including the plagiaristic poodle-led pack currently in power--have fought for years to quash the lawsuit, the Observer reports.

That's because the trial could open a can of particularly grubby worms concerning the UK government's extensive canoodling with BCCI. A host of worthies are expected to be grilled in the dock, including John Major, former UK prime minister and current business partner of George Bush I in yet another secretive international front that profits from war, weapons, violence, repression and the greasing of highly-placed palms: the Carlyle Group.
War is Golden for the Bush Administration
By CHRIS FLOYD

The opening of a long-delayed civil suit in a London courtroom; a brief, buried article on a judicial nomination; a fluctuation in the commodities market: three mundane, seemingly-unrelated items in the news last week that combined to give a fleeting glimpse of the ugly reality behind the frantic, diversionary façade of the "civilized world."

The London case involves our old friends, BCCI, the international bank that served as the front for a global crime ring involving top officials and Establishment worthies in dozens of "civilized" nations. BCCI ran guns to Saddam and other heavies, funded Pakistan's illegal nuclear weapons program, laundered drug profits, peddled prostitutes, doled out bribes, served as a conduit for covert CIA operations--and, through its connections to the bin Laden family, gave George W. Bush a sweetheart loan of $25 million to bail out one of his many business failures.

One of the respectable organizations tainted by the ring was the Bank of England, which was the financial regulator for BCCI when the front finally collapsed in 1991--leaving its legitimate creditors some $11 billion in the hole. Not surprisingly, some of these victims filed suit against ye olde B of E, claiming that its oversight of BCCI left something to be desired. But successive British governments--including the plagiaristic poodle-led pack currently in power--have fought for years to quash the lawsuit, the Observer reports.

That's because the trial could open a can of particularly grubby worms concerning the UK government's extensive canoodling with BCCI. A host of worthies are expected to be grilled in the dock, including John Major, former UK prime minister and current business partner of George Bush I in yet another secretive international front that profits from war, weapons, violence, repression and the greasing of highly-placed palms: the Carlyle Group.

more
http://www.counterpunch.org/floyd02152003.html