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From: Kayaker	12/22/2009 12:00:14 AM
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Royal Canadian Mint reveals how it lost gold By Ian MacLeod, The Ottawa Citizen December 21, 2009 More than $3 million in government gold was unwittingly sold off at a fraction of its value as refinery slag, while $8 million more was miscounted and never left the Royal Canadian Mint, the Crown corporation revealed today in a full accounting of how it lost track of a fortune in gold for a year. A series of miscalculations and blunders in its gold refinery dating back to 2005 were responsible for 17,500 troy ounces of gold going missing from the mint's Sussex Drive inventory count last October, the mint announced in a 12-page report. That’s the equivalent of almost 44, 400-ounce bars and worth more than $20 million in today's prices. The mint said a 14-month hunt to find out what happened to the precious metal now “fully accounts” for the missing gold, though it admits almost 3,500 ounces unwittingly sold off in slag to U.S. re-refiners will never be recovered. The mint blames the situation on an explosion in the demand for gold in 2008, which pushed sales up by 250 per cent and placed a huge strain on it’s gold refinery, one of the largest in the world.... ottawacitizen.com

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