[OldEarlGray]

[another group that made some pretty solid cash was the whores...]

Considering the fact that this gaping hole is...

 

 

South Africa: Anglogold Seeks 100
Percent of Cripple Creek
15 January 2008
Charlotte Mathews

GLOBAL gold producer AngloGold Ashanti was offering to buy Golden Cycle Corporation, its co-shareholder in the Cripple Creek & Victor Gold Mining Company in the US, for $149m in shares, the companies said yesterday.

 

The transaction would increase AngloGold's ownership to 100% of Cripple Creek, its only US operation, from 67% previously, although it had a 100% interest in the mine's production until the initial loan it made to the joint venture was repaid. At the end of September the outstanding value of the loan was $336m.

http://allafrica.com/stories/200801150052.html

 

...the largest gold mine in Colorado and, as of January 2008, was no longer owned by Americans - that's evidently still the case.

 

 

 

[agere_contra]

That's a pretty fascinating story actually.

It seems that some people in America needed to raise some money: and they did this by selling something they owned rather than by getting the Government to bail them out.

I wonder if that spirit of rugged independence will catch on?

Probably not. Apparently at least one FReeper denies the right of Americans to freely dispose of their own property:- likening their basic freedom of association to prostitution.