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ACCESSION NUMBER:		0001193805-09-002567
CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE:	8-K
PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT:		3
CONFORMED PERIOD OF REPORT:	20091221
ITEM INFORMATION:		Other Events
ITEM INFORMATION:		Financial Statements and Exhibits
FILED AS OF DATE:		20091224
DATE AS OF CHANGE:		20091224

FILER:

	COMPANY DATA:	
		COMPANY CONFORMED NAME:			GULF RESOURCES, INC.
		CENTRAL INDEX KEY:			0000885462
		STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION:	CHEMICALS & ALLIED PRODUCTS [2800]
		IRS NUMBER:				133637458
		STATE OF INCORPORATION:			DE
		FISCAL YEAR END:			1130

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		FORM TYPE:		8-K
		SEC ACT:		1934 Act
		SEC FILE NUMBER:	001-34499
		FILM NUMBER:		091260488

	BUSINESS ADDRESS:	
		STREET 1:		CHEMING INDUSTRIAL PARK
		STREET 2:		UNIT - HAOYUAN CHEMICAL COMPANY LIMITED
		CITY:			SHOUGUANG CITY, SHANDONG
		STATE:			F4
		ZIP:			262714
		BUSINESS PHONE:		(310) 470-2886

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		STREET 1:		CHEMING INDUSTRIAL PARK
		STREET 2:		UNIT - HAOYUAN CHEMICAL COMPANY LIMITED
		CITY:			SHOUGUANG CITY, SHANDONG
		STATE:			F4
		ZIP:			262714

	FORMER COMPANY:	
		FORMER CONFORMED NAME:	DIVERSIFAX INC
		DATE OF NAME CHANGE:	19940331
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December 21, 2009</font> - Gulf Resources, Inc. (NASDAQ: GFRE) (&#8220;Gulf Resources&#8221;
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bromine, crude salt and specialty chemical products in China</font>, today
announced that on December 21, 2009 it closed a private placement financing
which was previously&#160;&#160;announced on December 11, 2009. In the
transaction the Company issued&#160;&#160;2,941,182 shares of the Company's
common stock at a price of $8.50 per share for an approximate aggregate purchase
price of $25.0 million. Brean Murray, Carret &amp; Co., LLC acted as the
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bromine and crude salt production assets, as well as for general corporate
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glad to see the swift and successful closing of the recent private placement
transaction and the support from several acknowledged institutional investors.
The proceeds will strengthen our balance sheet and help us expand our footprint
through increased production capacity as we strive to cement our position as the
largest bromine and crude salt producer in China,&#8221; said Mr. Xiaobin Liu, Chief
Executive Officer of Gulf Resources. &#8220;We thank all of our new institutional
investors for their support in helping us reach our long term
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producers of bromine in China. Elemental Bromine is used to manufacture a wide
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175 under the Securities Act of 1933 and Rule 3b-6 under the Securities Exchange
Act of 1934, and are subject to the safe harbor created by those rules. The
actual results may differ materially depending on a number of risk factors
including, but not limited to, the general economic and business conditions in
the PRC, future product development and production capabilities, shipments to
end customers, market acceptance of new and existing products, additional
competition from existing and new competitors for bromine and other oilfield and
power production chemicals, changes in technology, the ability to make future
bromine asset purchases, and various other factors beyond its control. All
forward-looking statements are expressly qualified in their entirety by this
Cautionary Statement and the risks factors detailed in the Company's reports
filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Gulf Resources undertakes no
duty to revise or update any forward-looking statements to reflect events or
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