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FORM 3
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U.S. SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
WASHINGTON, DC 20549
INITIAL STATEMENT OF BENEFICIAL OWNERSHIP OF SECURITIES
Filed pursuant to Section 16(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934,
Section 17(a)
of the Public Utility Holding Company Act of 1935 or Section 30(f) of the
Investment Company Act of 1940
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1. Name and Address of Reporting Person* 2. Date of Event Requiring 4. Issuer Name and Ticker or 6. If Amendment, Date
von Finck August Statement Trading Symbol of Original
- ---------------------------------------- (Month/Day/Year) Homestake Mining Company (HMN) (Month/Day/Year)
(Last) (First) (Middle) July 7, 1998 ------------------------------
Pacallistrasse 4 ---------------------------- 5. Relationship of Reporting 7. Individual or Joint/
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(Street) Number of Reporting (Check all applicable) Applicable Line)
Person (Voluntary) ___ Director X 10% Owner X Form filed by One
Munich Germany 80333 ___ Officer ___ Other Reporting Person
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(City) (State) (Zip) than One Reporting
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TABLE 1 -- NON-DERIVATIVE SECURITIES BENEFICIALLY OWNED
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1. Title of Security 2. Amount of Securities 3. Ownership Form: 4. Nature of Indirect
(Instr. 4) Beneficially Owned Direct (D) or Beneficial
(Instr. 4) Indirect (I) Ownership (Instr. 4)
(Instr. 5)
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Common Stock, $.01 par value 21,205,000 shares 0
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*If the form is filed by more than one Reporting Person, see Instruction 5(b)(v).
Reminder: Report on a separate line for each class of securities beneficially owned directly or indirectly. (Over)
(Print or Type Responses) (Bulletin No. 177, 10-15-97)
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FORM 3 (CONTINUED) TABLE II -- DERIVATIVE SECURITIES BENEFICIALLY OWNED
(E.G., PUTS, CALLS, WARRANTS, OPTIONS, CONVERTIBLE SECURITIES)
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1. Title of Derivative Security 2. Date 3. Title and Amount of 4. Conver- 5. Owner- 6. Nature of Indirect
(Instr. 4) Exercisable and Securities Underlying sion or ship Beneficial Ownership
Expiration Date Derivative Security Exercise Form of (Instr. 5)
(Month/Day/ (Instr. 4) Price of Deriv-
Year) Deri- ative
vative Security:
Security Direct
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Date Expira- Amount or Indirect (I)
Exercis- tion Title Number (Instr. 5)
able Date of Shares
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Explanation of Responses:
August von Finck July 15, 1998
**Intentional misstatements or omissions of facts constitute Federal Criminal --------------------------------- -------------
Violations. **Signature of Reporting Person(1) Date
See 18 U.S.C. 1001 and 15 U.S.C. 78ff(a).
By: /s/ Ernst Knut Stahl
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Ernst Knut Stahl, Attorney in fact
By: /s/ Reiner Nocon
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Reiner Nocon, Attorney in fact
Note. File three copies of this Form, one of which must be manually signed.
If space provided is insufficient, See Instruction 6 for procedure.
(1) Signed by Ernst Knut Stahl and Reiner Nocon, as attorneys-in-fact of August von Finck, pursuant to the Power of Attorney, dated
December 8, 1995 from August von Finck et al. in favor of Messrs. Hubert Mannacher, Reiner Nocon and Ernst Knuth Stahl.
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