Gold (35 page)

Blue Star turquoise mine,
91
–92

Boka project,
133

Bolivia,
45

Bonanza
(TV show),
73

Bondala,
209
–11

bonds,
53
–54,
73
,
177
,
179
,
226

German,
160

Bosman, William,
189

Botswana,
209

Bowdich, Thomas,
190
,
193
,
194

Bo Xilai,
131

Bretton Woods system,
61
–64,
69

bribery,
18
,
97
,
98
,
140
,
147

Brink's-Mat Ltd.,
172
–75

Brisebois, Michel,
207
–8

Bristol,
173
,
174

Bristow, Grant,
223

Bristow, Mark,
221
–24

British Library,
194

Budapest,
97
–99

Bulgaria,
22

bullion analysts,
154
,
157

bullion funds,
154
–57

bullion market,
2
,
19
,
153
–57,
161
–65,
169
–71,
177

BIS exchange and,
176

Bunya,
216

Bureau of Mineral Resources, Liaoning,
131
,
132

Bureau of Mines, U.S.,
84

Burj Khalifa,
4

Burma (now Myanmar),
116
,
121

Burroughs, Edgar Rice,
187
–88

Burt, Tye,
224

Business Review Weekly,
138

Cairo,
200

Cajamarca,
31
–40

arrival of Spanish reinforcements in,
38

gold assembled in,
36
–37

Calder, Wallace,
79

California,
88
,
158
,
159

gold rush in,
47
–49,
79
,
201

Camflo Mines,
103
–4

Campbell, Frederick Barber,
59

Camp David, gold standard meeting at,
70
–75

Canada,
72
,
94
,
175
,
196

Munk in,
97
,
99
,
100
–101,
103
–4

Cape Town,
221
,
224

capital gains tax,
110

“carbon in pulp” (CIP),
107
–8

Carlin, Nev.,
91
,
93

Carlin Trend,
75
–76,
81
,
83
–86,
96
,
97

Carlisle, John G.,
53

Carson River,
79

cash deposits, gold compared with,
180

Catalan Atlas,
199

central banks,
65
,
68

BIS exchange and,
175
–77,
178
,
180

forward selling and,
113

gold buying of,
162

gold standard and,
44
,
45
,
49
,
54
–55,
58
,
63

see also specific banks

Changchun,
126

Chang San Hao,
136
–45

cheap labor at,
142
–43

equipment failure at,
142

Friedland's purchase of,
136
,
144

Friedland's sale of,
137

miners in,
139
–43,
145

“open to depth” deposit in,
141

traffic at,
141
–42

Charlemagne,
8

Charles, Jeremy,
170
–71

Charles, Prince of Wales,
219

Chase National Bank,
59

cheats, catching,
175

Chile,
28
,
30

China, Chinese,
37
,
71
,
99
,
114
–27

central bank of,
154
,
156
,
162

civil war in,
123
,
125

communism in,
115
,
117
,
121
,
123
–26,
131

Dalian mining conference in,
131

faking gold in,
181
n

gold buying of,
115

gold production in,
115
–27,
129
–52

gold reserves of,
119
,
129

Manchu rulers in,
120

millionaires in,
138
,
144

miners,
48
,
115
–16,
120
,
121
,
123
,
139
–49

Mongols in,
119
–20

new minerals policy in,
137

number of gold mines in,
115
,
145

ocean mining of,
228

prohibition on private mining in,
146
–47

purges in,
124

reparations paid by,
120

running-out-of-gold scenario for,
151
–52

small mining operations in,
115
–16,
145
–50

South Africa compared with,
115
,
137

transformation of,
115
,
117
,
125
,
126
–27

China National Gold Group Corporation,
124
,
137
,
141
,
143
,
145

China National Nuclear Corporation,
129
,
136
–37

China Railway,
142
–43

Christianity,
25
–26,
34
,
36

Atahualpa's conversion to,
40

Christian Science Monitor,
146
–47

cinnabar,
119

Civil War, U.S.,
50

Clairtone Sound Corporation Limited,
100
–101

Cleveland, Grover,
53

Clovis culture,
78

CME Group (formerly Chicago Mercantile Exchange),
166

coal,
137
–38,
144

Coetzer, Willie,
12
–15

Coinage Act (1873),
49

collateral,
159
,
166

Colombia,
28
,
30

Colorado,
82

Columbus, Christopher,
25
–26

commercials,
100

commodity exchange,
166

commodity prices,
62
,
97

communism, in China,
115
,
117
,
121
,
123
–26,
131

comprehensive force, laws of,
7

Comstock Lode,
79

Conan Doyle, Arthur,
187
–88

Congo, Belgian,
217

Congo, Democratic Republic of,
215
–29

illegal gold trade in,
225

war in,
216
,
226

Congress, U.S.,
45
,
46
,
166

Connally, John B.,
66
–68,
70
,
74

Conquest of the Incas, The
(Hemming),
29
,
31
,
35
,
39

consumer price index,
55

Coope, Alan,
86

copper,
99
–100,
137
,
173

Copts,
201

corruption,
9
,
18
–22,
219

in China,
131
,
142
,
144

Cortés, Hernán,
26
–27

Cortez, Nev.,
93
,
108

Crerie, Frank,
131

Crescent Valley,
86
,
91
,
92

crime,
228

gold and,
8
,
9
,
16
–22,
171
–75,
225

currency,
43
–45,
49
,
65
,
96

credibility of,
54
–55

gold standard and,
43
–44,
54
–55

pegged to dollar,
61
–62

see also specific currencies

Cuzco,
27
–31,
37
,
38

cyanide,
107
–9,
137
,
140
,
146
,
196

cyanide and heavy metals leak,
196

Daily Mail
(London),
175

Dakar,
188
,
195
,
204
,
210

Dalato camp,
204
–7

Dalian,
131

Damseaux family,
220

Danube River,
196

Davidoff, Steven,
158

Dean Ranch,
86

debts:

of European countries,
176
,
185

U.S. national,
62
,
165
–66

deep mining,
3
,
6
–7

see also
Mponeng mine

deflation,
55

de Gaulle, Charles,
63
–64

Democrats,
66

Dempster, Natalie,
160
–62

Deng Xiaoping,
126
–27,
143

Denver, Colo.,
105
,
110
,
111

Deutsche Bank,
169
–70

Diabougou,
212

diamonds,
80
,
209
,
217

Díaz, Bernal,
26

Dingha Cissé,
188

District Court for Massachusetts, U.S.,
178

divine right,
8

Dodd-Frank Act,
225
–26

dollar, Canadian,
72

dollar, Spanish (“pieces of eight”),
45

dollar, U.S.,
45
,
53
,
55
,
57
,
60
–65,
118
,
159
,
168

Bretton Woods and,
61
–64

floating considered for,
65

foreign holdings of,
58
,
62
,
63
,
65
,
68
–70,
72

gold convertibility and,
50
,
58
,
60
,
62
,
63
,
65
,
69
,
70
,
72
,
74
,
75
,
96

gold prices and,
178

value of,
60
,
65
,
69
,
70
,
72

doubt,
181

Dräger Oxyboks self-rescuer,
3
–4

Drake, Francis,
42

Dubai,
4

ducks, gold refining and,
119

Durban taxi wars,
10

Durba town,
228
–29

Economist,
165

economy,
62
,
227
,
228

European,
43

global,
101

gold standard and,
44
,
54
,
55
,
60

U.S.,
71
,
73
,
74
,
165
–66

Egypt,
187
,
200
,
201

Eichengreen, Barry,
44
,
55
–56

Eichmann, Adolf,
97

Eisenhower, Dwight D.,
71

Elko, Nev.,
107
,
111
,
112

Eloff, Zahan,
6

Ely, Nev.,
87

Emergency Banking Act (1933),
58

empowerment, South African use of term,
11

England,
46
,
50

privateers of,
41
–42

Entebbe,
215
,
216

“escalator” clause,
103

Esterhuizen, Leon,
21

ETFs,
see
exchange-traded funds

eunuchs,
120

Eureka County, Nev.,
81
,
83
–87,
89

euro,
165

European banking regulators,
154
,
159
–63,
177

European Central Bank,
179

European Union,
71
,
160
,
203
–4

exchange rate,
46

exchange-traded funds (ETFs),
154
–58,
166
–68,
176
,
180
–81

structural effect of,
156
,
157

Executive Order 6102,
58
–59

Exxon Corporation,
105

Falémé River,
202
,
204
,
205
,
211
,
212

“fall of ground,”
3

Fante people,
191

farm exports, U.S.,
50

fear,
96
,
97
,
139
,
176
,
177
,
227

Federal Reserve,
55
–56,
69
,
70
,
75
,
175
,
178

Feng Tao,
116
–18,
123
,
148
–50

Financial Times,
178
–79,
181
n