To clear up any confusion regarding the share allocation of Marakand shares to holders of Oxus shares. ------ Anyone buying shares in Oxus today will be entitled to a 'dividend' of 1 share in MKD for every 10 in OXS.

Well Goldfinger was right after all, every Tom, Dick and Harry is climbing on board this one! lol


RNS Number:0602T
Oxus Gold PLC
09 December 2003


Oxus Gold plc ("Oxus Gold" or the "Company")

Notification of interest

The Company received notification on 5 December 2003 that, as at 4 December
2003, the Bank of New York Europe Limited holds 11,231,416 ordinary shares of 1p
each in the Company on behalf of MLIIF World Gold Fund, a fund under its
administration. This holding represents 5.72% of Oxus Gold's issued ordinary
share capital.

Enquiries:

Richard Wilkins
Oxus Gold plc
Tel: 020 7907 2000




This information is provided by RNS
The company news service from the London Stock Exchange

Google - Insert MLIIF World Gold Fund. rgds aj

Holding up amongst all the carnage today, and it's worth remembering that William de Broe's conservative valuation for Oxus is 118p against a price of gold of US$400.

Scottie,

Too true, I see Avocet has taken quite a clobbering!

I hold both, so at least Oxus is partially offsetting my AVM losses.

Scottie,

Too true, I see Avocet has taken quite a clobbering!

I hold both, so at least Oxus is partially offsetting my AVM losses.

ajren,

re MLIIF, what's the epic of that fund please?

Hi Andy,
I am not being unhelpful but I do not know.I do not have time now to find out
but I suggest you get it from the Google search approach.rgds aj

Aj,

I checked, and couldn't find it!

I read the article, but upon searching through the various Merrill Lynch fund epics, it wasn't apparent which one the article was referring to, at least to me anyway.

I wanted to compare the performance of the fund with gold itself, and various gold miners for a guide.

all,

Oxus held up well today in my opinion, a very small drop, and Marakand rose!

Thinking of topping up.

Going to top up tomorrow aimtrader, I was waiting for it to drop by about 2 or 3p today and it didn't happen. I think it is going to go up again by another 6 -10p before, and after, the results of the gold pour come out in the next few weeks.. And I'm really surprised Marakand has hardly retraced since it went loopy last Thursday!

Scottie,

me too!

Maybe it shows the quality of the resources they have there?

Andy - re Epic

I do not think there is one.

Merrill Lynch International Investment Fund.
www.mlim.ch/sesite/secomply.htm
rgds aj

See STRONG INTEREST IN GOLD on my Gold Bullion thread rgds aj

NEWS
Cancellation of share premium account and distribution of shares in Marakand rgds aj

Aj,

Thanks for ML and Oxus info

SEE WEBSITE OF OXUS GLD RE: MKD &DISTRIBUTION OF ALLOCTION OF SHARES & WHAT LIMITS POSSIBLELY IT'S TO REACH.

If you are still looking for the Merril Lynch World Mining epic,its MLW..........

phobos,

Mnay thanks!

phobos, aj,

well the MLW chart certainly looks impressive!

was tempted to hit the sell button this afternoon,however the goldbugs index is up in the States,after being down the last couple of days,so fingers and legs crossed for tommorrow !!!!!!!!!!