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To: marcos who wrote (68142)	11/24/2009 11:50:08 PM
From: maxncompany	Respond to of 78420

Ya know, EC has been smiling quite a bit lately. And he has all those extra brain cells with nothing to do much of the time. Wouldn't be surprised if our EC figured out away to free the gold from its imprisonment by the Royal Mint.

To: marcos who wrote (68142)	11/25/2009 1:35:59 AM
From: Anchan	Respond to of 78420

The Royal Canadian Mint has gold (a) missing (b) not missing (c) neither missing nor not missing. I vote for (c). The audit might have discovered that the number of gold bars in the vaults accords with the number in the books. Some of those gold bars might have been sent in from, er, elsewhere. The audit might have drilled a few holes in themthar gold bars and, damn, didn't the drill dust taste of tungsten. Solution: shake, mix well, in the long run we'll be all dead anyway.

To: marcos who wrote (68142)	11/25/2009 2:12:57 AM
From: E. Charters	Respond to of 78420

I wonder if those 400 ounce bars missing that they mention were found to have tungsten inside em? Or was that equivalence to thingie just a comparative reference? When I visited the mint last was a long while ago, I saw they were minting 400 lbs bars for inventory, so theft was very hard. Similar to the handling of silver in transport in California in the 1800's. The mint would not accept anything beyond 1200 ounces or 100 lbs troy bricks from mines, for handling reasons. Hence the origin of the 100 lb gold brick. 100 lbs troy actually weighs 1200 troy ounces, not 1600, so weighs in fact 37,324.19 grams. That is 82.287 pounds avoirdupois. The volume is 1914 cubic cms. or 116.80 cubic inches if 99.99% pure. (0.9999 or four nines pure). That is a bar 4 inches wide on one side by 3 inches wide on the other, by 2.78 inches deep and 12 inches long. They make them trapezoidal in cross section so they are harder to pick up.

To: marcos who wrote (68142)	11/26/2009 1:48:31 PM
From: ralfph	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 78420

Perhaps the ton and half gold was used in a payment for "Future services " . The truck delivered the gold to a former high ranking politition in an underground parking lot . The payment has not been declared because "No one has asked the right question " heh heh heh .