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<LEGEND>

This financial data schedule  contains summary financial  information  extracted
from the consolidatd  financial  statements found in the U.S. Global  Investors,
Inc.  Quarterly  Report on Form 10-Q for the fiscal period ended March 31, 2000,
and is qualified in its entirety by reference to such financial statements.

</LEGEND>

                             
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