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Big shipment of gold from NYC to South Africa

mariner67mariner67 Posts: 2,746 ✭✭✭
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? Needed to mint more bullion?

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-05-14/south-african-mint-short-gold

Sorry I don't know how to linky!
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  • nibannynibanny Posts: 2,761 ✭
    LINK
    The member formerly known as Ciccio / Posts: 1453 / Joined: Apr 2009
  • tneigtneig Posts: 1,505 ✭✭✭
    It's supposed to go in the other direction? eh..

    Maybe they are leasing it from the FED to fulfill their contracts.
    COA
  • cohodkcohodk Posts: 19,143 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I would like to see exactly where this nugget of info came from....

    has left John F. Kennedy International Airport (JFK), in New York, for somewhere in South Africa, according to the US Census Bureau’s foreign trade division.
    Excuses are tools of the ignorant

    Knowledge is the enemy of fear

  • rickoricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Can anyone explain what the source of such quantities of 'unwrought' gold would be?? Cheers, RickO
  • CaptHenwayCaptHenway Posts: 32,156 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Unwrought gold:

    linky

    Could be anything. Scrap, melted but unrefined newly-mined gold, Fort Knox .900 fine bars............
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  • C0INB0YC0INB0Y Posts: 627 ✭✭


    << <i>Can anyone explain what the source of such quantities of 'unwrought' gold would be?? Cheers, RickO >>



    Ricko, Are those the Bars with Tungsten inside?
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