Exhibit 3.4

VIETNAM STATE BANK                                 SOCIALIST REPUBLIC OF VIETNAM
                                             INDEPENDENCE - FREEDOM -- HAPPINESS

No: 504/CV-QLNH                                          HA NOI, 25 January 2006


                        TO: BONG MIEU GOLD MINING COMPANY
                                 Re: gold export

     At the request of the Company in the application on gold export No
12/06-DG, Vietnam State Bank has replied as follows:

     1.  Agree to allow Bong Mieu Gold Mining Company to export 850kg (Eight
         hundred and fifty kilograms) doree that is produced by The Company in
         2006 for refining and selling to offshore.

     2.  Bong Mieu Gold Mining Company is only allowable to export the type of
         gold defined at Point 1 of this letter and shall fully implement the
         stipulation in the Decree 174/1999/ND-CP dated 09/12/1999 of the
         Government on Management of Gold Business, Decree 64/20003/NDCP dated
         11/6/2003 of the Government on amendment and supplementation of some
         articles of the Decree 174/1999/ND-CP, Circular 10/2003/TT-NHNN of
         Governor of the State Bank, Decision 1703/2004/QD-NHNN dated 28/12/2004
         on amendment and suplementation of Circular 10/2003/TT-NHNN and other
         current stiplulations related.

     3.  This letter is effective until 31 December 2006.


                                                FOR THE GOVERNOR OF THE BANK
Distribution:
-------------                                         DIRECTOR OF FOREIGN
-  As above                                           EXCHANGE CONTROL
-  Mr Nguyen Dong Tien                                Signed and sealed
   (Governor Assistant)
-  FILE                                               TROUNG VAN PHUOC