GATA Hits Pay Dirt: Gold Rush 21 Is Sold Out

WHITEHORSE, Yukon--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 22, 2005--The Gold-Anti Trust Action (GATA) Committee announced today that space at the Gold Rush 21 conference in Dawson City, Yukon, has completely sold out.

"The response to this exciting gathering has been phenomenal," said GATA Chairman Bill Murphy. "We would love to add more people to the event but we have taken all the available space in Dawson City. "

“One hundred people from around the world will gather in Dawson City to start an important dialogue on GATA's future and, indeed, the future of the world financial system”

"One hundred people from around the world will gather in Dawson City to start an important dialogue on GATA's future and, indeed, the future of the world financial system," Murphy said. "Discussion will focus on the central role of gold in that system and the development of a strong precious metals advocacy plan. We will issue our Dawson Declaration following the conference."

Gold Rush 21 will provide a unique opportunity for mining and financial industry leaders to discuss the precious metals and currency markets. It will disclose to the financial world and the mining industry that the precious metals markets are neither free nor fair, that the suppression of precious metals prices has terrible consequences for all markets, and that something must be done about it.

Delegates at Gold Rush 21 will come from all over the world. Among countries to be represented will be Canada, the United States, Russia, South Africa, Switzerland, Kuwait, United Arab Emirates, England, Australia, Panama, Mexico and Chile. The delegates will include leaders from the mining industry and capital management and experts in the precious metals markets.

"We are very, very excited about the impressive list of delegates attending this conference," Murphy said. "We expect to have great presentations and dialogue."

Speakers at the conference will also include:

John Embry of Toronto, chief investment strategist for Sprott Asset Management and formerly of Royal Bank's gold fund, author of the Sprott report on the manipulation of the gold price.

Ferdinand Lips of Switzerland, chairman of Top-Gold Fund in Liechtenstein, former chief executive of Bank Lips, former managing director of Rothschild Bank AG in Zurich, and author of "Gold Wars."

Hugo Salinas Price of Mexico City, founder and honorary president of Grupo Elektra, author of the seminal essay "Silver's Three Flags," and leader of the campaign to remonetize silver in Mexico.

Reginald Howe of Massachusetts, proprietor of Golden Sextant Advisors LLC, Harvard-trained lawyer, and plaintiff in the groundbreaking antitrust case of Howe vs. Bank for International Settlements et al. in U.S. District Court in Boston.

James Turk of New Hampshire, founder of GoldMoney, editor of the Freemarket Gold & Money Report, and author of "The Coming Collapse of the Dollar."

Peter George of South Africa, a veteran mining company executive and perhaps his country's foremost advocate of gold as money.

Professor Antal Fekete of Hungary and Canada, who worked in the Washington, DC, office of U.S. Rep. W. E. Dannemeyer for five years on monetary and fiscal reform. Since 2001 Professor Fekete has been consulting professor at Sapientia University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania. Today he runs the Gold Standard University on the website www.GoldIsFreedom.com . His essay "Wither Gold?" won first prize in the essay competition of Bank Lips Ltd. in Zurich, Switzerland.

John Brimelow of Aegis Capital in New York, whose research recently revealed the correlation between the strategically timed sales of European central bank gold reserves and the capping of the gold price at US$440 since December 2004.

Catherine Austin Fitts, president of Solari, served as managing director and member of the board of directors of the Wall Street investment bank Dillon, Read & Co. Inc. and was the assistant secretary of housing/federal housing commissioner at the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development in the first Bush administration. She was also the president and founder of Hamilton Securities.

Brett Kebble of South Africa is a director of Western Areas Ltd, Barnato Exploration Ltd., JCI Ltd., Matodzi Resources Ltd. and Randgold Resources Ltd. In 1998 he accomplished the largest investment ever made into South Africa by selling half the mine, South Deep - Western Areas' major asset - to a Canadian mining company, Placer Dome Inc.

Dr. J.K. Mortensen of Vancouver, professor of earth and ocean sciences at the University of British Columbia.

Hans Boge of Winnipeg, president of Klondike Star Mineral Corp., which holds mining rights to the territory at the center of the great Yukon Gold Rush.

Jeffrey Dahl, president of Samex Mining Corp., is a joint host and sponsor of Gold Rush 21 and will speak to the issue of why a junior exploration company should support the GATA effort.

Bill Murphy, GATA's chairman and proprietor of LeMetropoleCafe.com, the leading Internet site of commentary on the gold market.

For more information please visit www.goldrush21.com.