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	Robert Friedland - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		As a result, he acquired the nickname "Toxic Bob".
		Friedland made his fortune when his Diamond Fields Resources uncovered one of the world's biggest nickel deposits while searching for diamonds in Voisey's Bay, Newfoundland.
		The Big Score: Robert Friedland, Inco, and the Voisey's Bay Hustle.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Robert_Friedland (114 words)

	ABC Radio National - Background Briefing: 6 April 1997 - Robert Friedland: The King of the Canadian Juniors
		Robert Friedland's PR firm has told Background Briefing that Robert Friedland only has a small share holding of less than 3% in Diamondworks, and that it's his brother Eric who's President of the company.
		Robert Friedland, the one everyone wants to be like, was awarded Developer of the Year in 1996 by the Canadian Prospectors and Developers Association.
		Robert Friedland has been quoted as saying, 'To do business in Asia, you not only have to know how, you have to know who.' Nowhere is that more clear than in his investments in Burma and Indonesia.
	www.abc.net.au /rn/talks/bbing/stories/s10601.htm (5974 words)

	Grave Diggers: A Report on Mining in Burma (Chapter 3)
		Robert Friedland was engaged in tree farming and primal scream therapy [Forbes 10/2/97] when, in 1981, he launched his first minerals venture, the ill-fated Galactic Resources.
		Friedland's partner in the establishment of DFR in 1993 was the soft-spoken Jean-Raymond Boulle, an ex-manager in Africa for the world's most lucrative minerals cartel, Anglo-De Beers (diamonds).
		Friedland's genius for drawing ostensibly respectable financiers into his manoeuvres was aptly demonstrated when, in the two years before the offering, five employees of First Marathon were invited to participate in a series of private placements, enabling them to secure IGL stock at heavily discounted prices.
	www.minesandcommunities.org /Country/burma4.htm (5203 words)

	The Promoter - Robert Friedland in Forbes
		Shareholders also seem to be dismissing Friedland's past legal battles with the U.S. government, his cozy relationship with the thugs running Burma and the lack of in-depth engineering analysis of Turquoise Hill.
		That was in 1994, when Friedland was best known by critics as "Toxic Bob," after another of his ventures, Galactic Resources, tried to develop a gold mine near Summitville, Colorado, using heap leaching, an extraction process that dips ore in cyanide to extract gold.
		Friedland swooped in and cut a deal to buy the exploration license to the 520 square miles of Turquoise Hill in May 2000, agreeing to pay $5 million and grant BHP 2% of the revenues generated by any mine.
	www.minesandcommunities.org /Company/friedland6.htm (2046 words)

	What's Wrong With Gold? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-15)
		Gold speculator extraordinaire Robert Friedland, a dual citizen of Canada and the United States whose personal fortune exceeds US$400 million, acquired the nickname "Toxic Bob" in 1969 when he was busted for trying to peddle 8,000 "hits" of the hallucinogenic drug LSD to an undercover drug agent in Portland, Maine.
		Friedland keeps a portfolio of other interests on the boil in association with his other companies such as Indochina Goldfields, a company that was initially set up in San Francisco but soon moved operations to Singapore and Vancouver, and Bakyrchik, a London-based company in which Friedland has a stake.
		Friedland is also involved in a project in his adopted home of Australia where yet another of his subsidiaries named Australian Bulk Minerals (ABM) is planning to develop the Savage River iron ore deposit in the Tarkine region of Tasmania's north coast.
	www.moles.org /ProjectUnderground/motherlode/gold/fried.html (7003 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-15)
		Friedland, et al, for the environmental hazard at the Summitville Mine.
		Friedland to pay the federal government and the State of Colorado $27,750,000 over the course of the next ten years.
		Friedland was the president at various times of three now bankrupt corporations, Summitville Consolidated Mining Company, Inc., Galactic Resources, Inc., and Galactic Resources, Limited, when they first started mining operations at Summitville.
	www.usdoj.gov /enrd/summitville.htm (751 words)

	The Ugly Canadian
		Friedland’s major, catastrophically false assumption was that the recently developed heap-leach system (virtually the cheapest and fastest way to extract gold from ore) would work on a vast scale (spread over 50 acres) and halfway up an icebound mountain.
		Friedland has also sealed joint venture deals with Carson Gold, Queenstake Resources and Philip Resources in the same area, and has acquired a minority stake in Bolivar Goldfields.
		Friedland is not involved in mining in Venezuela." Yet by then, the Canadian entrepreneur was the second biggest owner of mining claims in Bolivar.
	multinationalmonitor.org /hyper/issues/1994/11/mm1194_08.htm.save (1681 words)

	MUCKRAKER :: Programs (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-15)
		At the age of 19, Friedland was identified by federal agents as a key figures in an LSD distribution network that stretched from Main to California.
		Friedland was sentenced to two years in prison, but was paroled early.
		In a written statement, Friedland said he did so voluntarily, "long before the board of directors formally removed me." But Morinis and the SEVA board president, Jai Lakshman, both say that Friedland was ousted, primarily for using his position with the organization to promot himself and the financial interst of Galactic.
	www.muckraker.org /pg_inv_sources-63-435.html (2423 words)

	Friedland, Robert (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-15)
		Robert Friedland is the founding director of the Center on an Aging Society.
		Friedland is on the board of the National Academy for State Health Policy, the Long-Term Care Education Foundation, and the Editorial Board of Aging Today.
		Friedland received his doctorate in economics from the George Washington University in 1983.
	www.cmwf.org /profiles/profiles_show.htm?doc_id=267167 (141 words)

	Friedland - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Friedland, Lower Saxony, Germany, see also German article
		Battle of Friedland during the Napoleonic Wars in 1807
		This is a disambiguation page: a list of articles associated with the same title.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Friedland (114 words)

	MM JUNE 1997
		Friedland "seems to thrive in countries that have dodgy governments, that are reputed to be corrupt," says John Woods of Canada Stock Watch.
		Friedland might well have been counted on to provide the capital, and he might have expected to call on his friends in RTZ to provide the mining expertise for re-opening the mine.
		Friedland commands unrivaled access to new mining investment in disputed, strife-torn and frontier areas, which the bigger mining companies will not penetrate, whether out of political sensitivity or for fear of burning their fingers.
	multinationalmonitor.org /hyper/mm0697.09.html (2553 words)

	The Research Of Dr. Robert Friedland and Dr. Amir Soas (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-15)
		A groundbreaking study led by Dr. Robert Friedland, a neurologist at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine in Cleveland, has combined mental, physical and even social activities in adults, and compared activity levels with the rate of Alzheimer's disease.
		Friedland's study used a questionnaire to collect biographical information from 193 older adults with Alzheimer's disease and 358 elderly people who were healthy.
		Dr. Friedland's study found that the healthy older adults had been more mentally and physically active between the ages of 40 and 60 than those who later developed Alzheimer's disease.
	www.ahaf.org /whatsnew/Dr_Friedland_Soas.htm (401 words)

	Investor Beats Mining Disaster Charges
		Friedland had resigned all his positions with the company less than month before this incident.
		They underscored their concern by noting that ownership of Friedland's mansion in Vancouver had been moved to a company in the British Virgin Islands and his Denver-based companies had transferred their operations to Singapore, while the man himself claimed to live in Sydney, Australia.
		Early last month, Judge Robert Sharpe accepted Friedland's defense that there was insufficient evidence to hold the multi-millionaire liable for contamination from the mine, and he ordered that the freeze on his assets be lifted.
	www.monitor.net:16080 /monitor/9612a/friedland.html (887 words)

	Howling At A Waning Moon: Mining's bad boy sees lucrative haven in Mongolia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-15)
		Friedland went on to pioneer a technique of launching mining ventures that made him money whether or not he hit paydirt, says David Baines, a Vancouver Sun business columnist.
		Friedland pitched the technique of heap- leach mining, in which sodium cyanide would be poured on crushed ore to dissolve gold.
		Friedland, whose lawyers have recovered about $17 million from others involved in the mine, declined an oral interview for this story.
	www.howlingthemoon.org /archives/2005/11/minings_bad_boy.html (1435 words)

	Fool.com: Robert Friedland Responds to the Fool [News] April 14, 2000
		Friedland's voting rights have been assigned to the CEO of Sirius does not necessarily keep him from exerting de facto influence on the actions of the company, particularly as he did play such a key role in getting the company off the ground in 1992.
		Friedland or Sirius, nor would my stance as a pro-nuclear, pro-business Libertarian suggest that I hold much sympathy for environmental extremism.
		Robert Friedland later made another response to this article.
	www.fool.com /news/2000/siri000414.htm (782 words)

	American Metal Market: Feds freeze $152M payout to Friedland - EPA and US Justice Dept. freeze $152 million in stocks ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-15)
		Friedland was named in a lawsuit brought by the federal government and the state of Colorado several years ago for the cleanup of the Summitville mine--estimated to cost taxpayers about $152 million when it is completed.
		The order was issued to prevent Friedland from taking possession of that same amount--a portion of the stocks he was trading in as a result of the merger of Diamond Fields Resources Inc., Vancouver, British Columbia, with Inco Ltd., Toronto--late last week by the U.S. District Court in Denver and two Canadian courts.
		Friedland allegedly oversaw the Summitville heap-leach gold mining operation in an individual capacity until the mine as abandoned in 1992, leaving the facility in "imminent danger" of releasing "catastrophic amounts of metal and cyanide contaminants into the Alamosa River."
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m3MKT/is_n166_v104/ai_18623326 (456 words)

	Sydney Mining Club - Ivanhoe's Mongolian Mining Plans - Robert Friedland
		The emergence of Robert Friedland as a large scale mineral developer marks a generational change away from ‘the major mining company’ model.
		Today Robert Friedland is doing a similar job in finding a much-needed source of wealth for Mongolia’s 2.8 million people with the Turquoise Hill project.
		It seems every Friedland observer has favourite stories from his rich career and his supporters thrive on his high-octane promotional style… In presentations, he describes the Gobi desert’s bare geology as ‘naked rocks’ and the size of Ivanhoe’s Mongolian tenements as being ‘one-and-a-half-hours-long travelling at Mach 0.9’ (in a Gulfstream jet of course).
	www.smedg.org.au /miningc/indexjan04.htm (608 words)

	JUDGE STRIKES DOWN SUMMITVILLE COUNTERCLAIMS AGAINST COLORADO & U.S.
		Friedland was the Chief Executive Officer of Galactic Resources Limited, a Canadian Corporation, whose wholly owned subsidiary, Summitville Consolidated Mining Company, Inc., (SCMCI), operated the Summitville Mine Site near Del Norte, Colorado from 1985 to 1992.
		The United States and Colorado filed suit against Robert Friedland in May 1996, alleging that Friedland was an "operator" of the Summitville Mine Superfund Site under federal environmental laws and therefore liable to the U.S. and to Colorado for the cleanup costs incurred by the state and the federal government.
		Friedland's counterclaims alleged that Colorado and the U.S. were liable parties under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Recovery Act (CERCLA) as a result of Colorado's regulation of the Site prior to 1992 and that both parties participated in the ongoing remediation.
	www.ago.state.co.us /press_detail.cfm?pressID=619 (293 words)

	www.mineweb.net \| sections \| junior mining Magnus attracts noteworthy attention (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-15)
		The second was the low-key presence of mining entrepreneur and Asia business expert Robert Friedland in the audience.
		Magnus's management said billionaire mining entrepreneur Friedland does not have an interest in Magnus Resources or in the properties it holds in the Yunnan and Sichuan provinces of China.
		AMEC was also awarded the contract for pre-feasibility and feasibility studies for Friedland's Ivanhoe Mines' Oyu Tologoi copper-gold-molybdenum project in Mongolia.
	www.mineweb.net /sections/junior_mining/425399.htm (595 words)

	Friedland on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-15)
		Colorado Supreme Court rules in Robert Friedland's favor, reinstating Summitville insurance claim for lower court decision.
		Robert M. Friedland - Lawsuit seeks to establish full responsibilities for costs of environmental actions at the Summitville Mine site in Colorado.
		Molecular Imaging Corporation to Present at Friedland Capital's Biotech, Medical and Healthcare Conference September 24th.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/X/X-F1riedlan.asp (473 words)

	www.mineweb.net \| sections \| gold & silver The other China syndrome (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-15)
		There are simply too many too-good angles for a country that only recently hitched a ride on modernisation.
		Robert Friedland, chairman of Ivanhoe Mines [HUGO], exemplifies the garrulousness about the new China.
		Friedland is a man given to hyperbole, but he is merely on the bleeding edge of a very boosterish China lobby.
	www.mineweb.net /sections/gold_silver/16800.htm (1090 words)

	Dragon Pharmaceuticals (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-15)
		Friedland is chairman and president of Ivanhoe Capital Corporation, a Singapore-based venture capital company with worldwide interests in resource and high-tech companies.
		Companies developed or financed by Friedland and Ivanhoe Capital include Ivanhoe Energy, Ivanhoe Mines, Diamond Fields Resources, Golden Star Resources, Fairbanks Gold, Cyber City Holdings (a Chinese company establishing high-tech science parks) and SINA.com (a global Internet media company).
		Friedland brings a wealth of experience to the Company and will undoubtedly be an invaluable addition to the Board of Directors.
	www.dragonbiotech.com /printpress.asp?pn=29 (209 words)

	Georgetown University
		Participation in Georgetown University's Long-Term Care Project, which is designed to elevate policy discussions of long-term care and create a network of researchers engaged in systemic analysis of problems and solutions, particularly related to financing.
		Demography Is Not Destiny, Revisited, Robert B. Friedland and Laura Summer, March 2003.
		Measuring the Years: State Aging Trends and Indicators, Robert Friedland, Laura Summer, Katherine Mack, and Susan Mathieu, December 2004.
	ihcrp.georgetown.edu /agingsociety/projects.html (641 words)

	CV: Robert P. Friedland MD
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	www.netwellness.org /experts/cv.cfm?personid=413 (112 words)

	Amazon.com: Big Score: Robert Friedland, Inco, and the Voisey's Bay Hustle: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-15)
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		A fabulously well written story about Robert Friedland and his involvement with the Voisey Bay discovery.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0385257589?v=glance (654 words)

	Surprising To Whom? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-15)
		The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's ability to get a Canadian judge to seize US$152 million of Robert Friedland's assets, because Mr.
		Friedland was a major shareholder of a mining company that allegedly left a messy mine site years ago, sets a dangerous precedent.
		Aside from the fact that the EPA contradicts the U.S. Constitution, its power to enforce retroactive, non-objective law to extort money from Canadian citizens for the "sin" of enhancing U.S. mining output represents a major leap toward a new Dark Age.
	www.capitalism.org /glennw/letters3/epa_assault.htm (183 words)

	Ivanhoe Mines Chairman Robert Friedland says Corrections by Bloomberg News elevate recent story's false premise to the ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-15)
		Ivanhoe Mines Chairman Robert Friedland says Corrections by Bloomberg News elevate recent story's false premise to the level of absurdity
		I appreciate Bloomberg's willingness to correct false and misleading statements in this particular story, even though the result remains disappointing.
		Yours sincerely, Robert M. Friedland Chairman Ivanhoe Mines Information contacts in North America ------------------------------------- Media: Bob Williamson Investors: Bill Trenaman 1 604 688 5755
	www.forrelease.com /D20041018/to055.P1.10182004140941.25291.html (631 words)

	Bibliography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-15)
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		Review of Robert Parsons, Lost At Sea: Volume Two (St. John's, Creative Publishers, 1992) and Toll of the Sea: Stories from the Forgotten Coast (St. John's, Creative Publishers, 1995) in Newfoundland Quarterly vol.
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