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North Shore News

A SAILBOAT leaving Vancouver passes Point Atkinson lighthouse on
the rest of us — is rain and rough weather for the rest of the week.

by Bob Hunter

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A golden moment

RECENTLY RAN into somebody with a vi-
sion about Canada. That’s right. A vision!

His name ws Gordon
Briggs. He is a Vancouver
businessman who was invaly
ed ata rather high level in the
1979-80 gold rush that shook
the world.

Brige’s role was to oa
advertendly trigger the abrupt
tise in the price of gold that
led, in the end, to those long
rows Of people lined up oon
almost ever city m the world,
frantically tryin to buy gold
at amore than $8OO an ounce

Them, yust as inysteriousds
aso bad started CO rise tty
proee of gold fell Hundreds
Ot thousands of Tele pays went
burned

SOONTE HOODY yar thre
WHEY

Ht wasnt Briggs abt trough
Brie s saves he hrows whe po
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foe tead the st taaripead tee
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vee ttre re sed berge owe PE tn
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parley ede Brige
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Thre feet ap nets

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web awrisd cvthoat Pree ets
rire lals Vy CONTE rite Woop
Nore Asc urtab lady gered ted
eye ty Pea pert nase ty greed

oct esd pebatccnens prea
vee POTD tthe Vea ow Pre tae

was tren ead coho cena Nbeote be

pul topether the sabe ated pret
hase ot 2 OOO tons cof peck
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vey Haptve be wate a de Jt
Poabet tet ar Swiss serbesgeboae  of

poweet LD traeik ce bras te et ‘

worth $16.5 bilhon
He had successtully
assembled offers to buy thal

For a brief —
moment, he sat
in Zurich with a
letter of credit
for $16.5 billion

much pold) from oa source
ready Co untoad the beppest
Single supply of the presroas
mefaloever to be mia vcd onto
the workd parket at cone finan

Ptve forte and (he sthortotat

iso that a ety Stagg overs

unscrupulous banker saw a
way to use that $16.5-b lhon
letter Gt credit to pretend that
here was a sudden
widespread demand for the
amount of gold that) was
already on the market.

It was a terrific strategy for
turning a sale that might have
caused a glut on the world
gold matket into the ap
pearance of a demand In
stead of priees falling. they
Tose spectacularly

Yet othe cntire tise was
manipulated by a world
bank. using Briggs detter of
cfedit to fake a gold rush
which then became real tt
was a
banditry

outhageous bit ot

Phe boom was wholly at
tities rath Briggs savs In
Ventors weit systematically
looted of bellrons of dollars

And Dripes. back in Van

THE NATURAL CUT

The natural cul follows the

How of
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Peart Mea tusteally  testts ( ompletely

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couver after nearly two
decades of wandering the
globe as a consultant
specializng in precious and
Strategic metal investments
through offices in Beverty
Hills, Monaco, Hong Kong
and Nassau, is a {ot wiser.

He sees another gold rush
coming — possibly even
before the U.S. fall election.
He thinks everone who can
should get rich, not just a
handful of bankers. And he
thinks Canada is actually in
an incredible position to take
advantage of the situation
that is developing.

Canada could lead the way
into the next century, he says.
And it’s all got to do with
gold and flightjcapinal and
brokering and @#gh tech in
the resources field. — . ore

Tired of bad news? Want . Prom Cate
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