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zero hedge adds truth to the "tungsten" gold rumors

derrybderryb Posts: 36,795 ✭✭✭✭✭
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Found in Germany

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  • WeissWeiss Posts: 9,941 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Your link is bad:

    Zero Hedge

    However, note that at least some of the transcription running over the footage has been added and is misleading. Also when you visit the website of the news organization quoted in this link, there is no corresponding story about this supposed tungsten bar.

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  • WeissWeiss Posts: 9,941 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Further, note that the bank is "unnamed", and even the link to Heraeus is actually to a third party.
    We are like children who look at print and see a serpent in the last letter but one, and a sword in the last.
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  • secondrepublicsecondrepublic Posts: 2,619 ✭✭✭
    I don't doubt there was a tungsten bar they discovered at that refinery. But that wasn't central bank gold; it looked more like a 10 oz. or Kilo bar.
    "Men who had never shown any ability to make or increase fortunes for themselves abounded in brilliant plans for creating and increasing wealth for the country at large." Fiat Money Inflation in France, Andrew Dickson White (1912)
  • WeissWeiss Posts: 9,941 ✭✭✭✭✭
    My German isn't good enough for a really accurate translation, but I don't think he says they discovered tungsten.

    Does this look like a bar that is tungsten-filled, or does it look like a bar that has been drilled out?



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    We are like children who look at print and see a serpent in the last letter but one, and a sword in the last.
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  • secondrepublicsecondrepublic Posts: 2,619 ✭✭✭
    I don't know the German word for tungsten. Could be chocolate in there. image
    "Men who had never shown any ability to make or increase fortunes for themselves abounded in brilliant plans for creating and increasing wealth for the country at large." Fiat Money Inflation in France, Andrew Dickson White (1912)
  • OPAOPA Posts: 17,119 ✭✭✭✭✭
    But, but .. it's on the internet, so it must be true?image

    << <i>I don't know the German word for tungsten >>

    :Wolfram.
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  • WeissWeiss Posts: 9,941 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>But, but .. it's on the internet, so it must be true?image

    << <i>I don't know the German word for tungsten >>

    :Wolfram. >>



    Well then I stand corrected--he does say that. But it still doesn't look like it's filled with anything. And it's definitely not a London Good Delivery bar.
    We are like children who look at print and see a serpent in the last letter but one, and a sword in the last.
    --Severian the Lame
  • HalfStrikeHalfStrike Posts: 2,202 ✭✭✭
    I think there are a lot more fake bars out there than realized, I would not trust bars.
  • derrybderryb Posts: 36,795 ✭✭✭✭✭
    The bar was filled with something or it would not have made weight. Tungsten has the same weight as gold.



    << <i>I think there are a lot more fake bars out there than realized, I would not trust bars. >>


    I wouldn't trust the LBMA either:

    LBMA turning paper into gold

    "Interest rates, the price of money, are the most important market. And, perversely, they’re the market that’s most manipulated by the Fed." - Doug Casey

  • keepdachangekeepdachange Posts: 1,374
    Sieht aus wie eine Gold Bar gefüllt mit Schokolade. Verdammt!
    "If you hit a midget on the head with a stick, he turns into 40 gold coins." - Patty Oswalt
  • OPAOPA Posts: 17,119 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Latest article from Patrick Heller re: Gold Bar filled with Tungsten

    coin up date news

    PS written in English.
    "Bongo drive 1984 Lincoln that looks like old coin dug from ground."
  • CaptHenwayCaptHenway Posts: 32,128 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>My German isn't good enough for a really accurate translation, but I don't think he says they discovered tungsten.

    Does this look like a bar that is tungsten-filled, or does it look like a bar that has been drilled out?



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    The picture appears to show semi-circular, over-lapping cuttings, which would suggest that the bar was drilled repeatedly from one end.
    TD
    Numismatist. 50 year member ANA. Winner of four ANA Heath Literary Awards; three Wayte and Olga Raymond Literary Awards; Numismatist of the Year Award 2009, and Lifetime Achievement Award 2020. Winner numerous NLG Literary Awards.
  • 1jester1jester Posts: 8,637 ✭✭✭
    Maybe they are tungsten rods (looks like it to me) and they could have been inserted into a drilled bar or put inside a poured gold bar during production.

    At the end of the video, the man says, "all that glitters isn't gold."

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