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  • Royal Canadian Mint: Where is our gold???

    That's it. Deficits as far as the eye can see and now, missing gold?

    If the trend continues, soon we will have to pay for health care!

    OTTAWA [June 2, 2009] — A significant quantity of gold, silver and other precious metals is unaccounted for at the Royal Canadian Mint.


    External auditors are investigating a discrepancy between the mint's 2008 financial accounting of its precious metals holdings and the physical stockpile at the plant on Sussex Drive in Ottawa.


    The mystery raises possibilities from sloppy bookkeeping to a gold heist.
    Officials with the commercial Crown corporation are saying little and refuse to confirm the amount and value of the unaccounted for gold, silver and palladium.

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    Full article here.

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    Re: Royal Canadian Mint: Where is our gold???

    Originally posted by LargoWinch View Post
    That's it. Deficits as far as the eye can see and now, missing gold?

    If the trend continues, soon we will have to pay for health care!
    Full article here.
    Which is why I say "if you can't hold it, you don't own it!"

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      Re: Royal Canadian Mint: Where is our gold???

      Silly Canadians.

      This would never happen at Fort Knox.

      (By this, I mean a reported external audit, not that some gold is actually missing. :rolleyes
      Most folks are good; a few aren't.

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      • #4
        Re: Royal Canadian Mint: Where is our gold???

        Originally posted by ThePythonicCow View Post

        This would never happen at Fort Knox.
        Yeah, but this might:

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        • #5
          Re: Royal Canadian Mint: Where is our gold???

          The Canadians are invariably above board, so there can not have been any hanky panky in this story.

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