Date: 23/11/2007
Author: Michael Vaughan
Source: The Australian Financial Review --- Page: 63
Australian-listed Bolnisi Gold's shareholders will vote on a mergerproposal in December 2007. US-based Coeur d'Alene Mines is offering $A3.35per share for Bolnisi stock. The merged company would be the biggest silverproducer in the world, and its assets would include Bolnisi's Palmarejosilver and gold project in Mexico and Cour d'Alene's mines in the US,Argentina and Chile. Bolnisi chairman Norman Seckold concedes that some of hiscompany's shareholders were reluctant to support the merger at first, buthe has been in favour of it from the outset