MINING investments do not interest Chalid Muhammad. Yet the former Executive Director of the Mining Advocacy Network does in fact own one share in the Newmont Mining Corporation, purchased by a friend at the New York Stock Exchange.

With this share, Chalid was eligible to attend the 2000 general meeting of Newmont Mining Corporation shareholders in Denver, the capitol of the US state of Colorado. Anwar Stirman, a fisherman from Teluk Buyat, also