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Report of 1 Kilo Gold Bar Filled with Tungsten Found in UK
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| Mar 26, 2012
Posted on 03/26/2012 2:54:56 PM PDT by KeyLargo
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HOW TO DETECT A FAKE TUNGSTEN GOLD BAR
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5FvM_4B7Pkc
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posted on
03/26/2012 2:55:03 PM PDT
by
KeyLargo
To: KeyLargo
My how times change.
In the early 2000’s we had to make some parts out of tungsten.
Making them out of gold would have been half as much.
To: KeyLargo
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posted on
03/26/2012 3:04:16 PM PDT
by
Theoria
(Rush Limbaugh: Ron Paul sounds like an Islamic terrorist)
To: KeyLargo
So, the solution is to buy Tungsten bars.
Tungsten, as well as Platinum, has the added advantage of being useful in the industry.
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posted on
03/26/2012 3:06:55 PM PDT
by
BitWielder1
(Corporate Profits are better than Government Waste)
To: KeyLargo
Yep. There has been some talk about this before.
There’s a longer article that also just came out on this story, here:
http://silverdoctors.blogspot.ca/2012/03/tungsten-filled-1-kilo-gold-bar.html
The article claims that ClintBilly and his money guys ordered a bunch of these bars to pay off China and to stick in Fort Knox. Who knows? It’s the kind of thing that he might very well have done.
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posted on
03/26/2012 3:07:10 PM PDT
by
Cicero
(Marcus Tullius)
To: KeyLargo
When was the last time anyone actually saw the gold in fort Knots?
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posted on
03/26/2012 3:08:43 PM PDT
by
guitarplayer1953
(Grammar & spelling maybe wrong, get over it, the world will not come to an end!)
To: KeyLargo
Industrial use of tungsten is rather constant. The consumption of tungsten when graphed is pretty much a flat line. However, in the period of 1994-5, there was a huge one-time spike in the industrial consumption of tungsten. By the end of '95, things were back to normal.
At the same time there was a massive transfer of gold to Greek smelters for reprocessing. It could only have come from a national treasury or central bank. There were rumors that someone has disgorged Hitler's long lost gold, Japan's wartime stash of gold, or the gold we held in safekeeping for China as Japan was invading them in the Thirties. No one is sure where it came from.
Then it all disappeared. It's connected somehow, but I'm not sure what is going on.
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posted on
03/26/2012 3:10:54 PM PDT
by
Publius
(Tagline for rent. Reasonable rates.)
To: KeyLargo
Glad to know everyone is equipping themselves with ultrasound machines... This is like the fake 100’s that are floating around, and the effective demise (and pretty unreported) of traveler’s checks. Last person who holds the bad item loses the money. But with the price ratio that high, it wouldn’t shock me at all if there were a lot more fake bars (or filled) bars out there than people think, especially in the middle east and India.
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posted on
03/26/2012 3:11:29 PM PDT
by
kingu
(Everything starts with slashing the size and scope of the federal government.)
To: KeyLargo
Dang it,....you caught me.
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posted on
03/26/2012 3:15:53 PM PDT
by
SandRat
(Duty - Honor - Country! What else needs said?)
To: Cicero
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posted on
03/26/2012 3:16:13 PM PDT
by
KeyLargo
To: KeyLargo
In the UK, there have been doubts about the quality of Britains paltry remaining gold stock as some of the gold bars are reportedly cracked, have fissures and are beginning to crumble Pure gold is one of softest and most malleable metals. It can be rolled into foil of just a few mils thick. I have never even heard of gold "cracking" or "crumbling." You'd need to put a gold bar into a stress test machine - and even then it will probably flow around the holds instead of cracking.
If that's what UK has then it's not gold. There aren't even any metals, AFAIK, that would crack or crumble just by laying on a shelf.
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posted on
03/26/2012 3:17:00 PM PDT
by
Greysard
To: BitWielder1
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posted on
03/26/2012 3:22:00 PM PDT
by
KeyLargo
To: KeyLargo
Hmmm, guess that one should beware of
Wolfram in
Auric's clothing, eh?
.
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posted on
03/26/2012 3:22:00 PM PDT
by
Seaplaner
(Never give in. Never give in. Never...except to convictions of honour and good sense. W. Churchill)
To: KeyLargo
Took much longer than I expected to see this.
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posted on
03/26/2012 3:30:40 PM PDT
by
Sequoyah101
(Half the people are below average.)
To: KeyLargo
I guess Soros has a new game afoot.
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posted on
03/26/2012 3:34:04 PM PDT
by
A Strict Constructionist
(We're an Oligrachy...Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God. Thomas Jefferson)
To: KeyLargo; jiggyboy; PA Engineer; blam; TigerLikesRooster; Cheap_Hessian; CJinVA; Jet Jaguar; ...
To: guitarplayer1953
“When was the last time anyone actually saw the gold in fort Knots?”
1964. I saw it, towards the end of Goldfinger.
To: KeyLargo
Tungsten has the highest melting point of any metal: over 6,000 degrees F. Rather than pouring tungsten into A gold bar, more likely the tungsten bar was gold plated. tungsten and gold have a similar weight and electrical conductance.
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posted on
03/26/2012 3:52:23 PM PDT
by
Procyon
(Decentralize, degovernmentalize, deregulate, demonopolize, decredentialize, disentitle.)
To: KeyLargo
Note to self: Do not buy gold bars with lots of holes drilled into them and filled.
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posted on
03/26/2012 3:55:22 PM PDT
by
Secret Agent Man
(I'd like to tell you, but then I'd have to kill you.)
To: KeyLargo
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posted on
03/26/2012 3:55:33 PM PDT
by
Noumenon
("I tell you, gentlemen, we have a problem on our hands." Col. Nicholson-The Bridge on the River Qwai)
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