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[simple simon]

Hello everyone,

There is a story circulating that the US gold deposits at Fort Knox include many fake gold bars!

In October of 2009 the Chinese received a shipment of gold bars from the USA which they decided to test to guarantee the purity and weight. In this test, four small holes are drilled into the gold bars and the metal is then analyzed.

Officials were shocked to learn that the bars were fake. They contained cores of tungsten with only a outer coating of real gold. What's more, these gold bars, containing serial numbers for tracking, originated in the US and had been stored in Fort Knox for years. There were reportedly between 5,600 to 5,700 bars, weighing 400 oz. each, in the shipment!

http://www.viewzone.com/fakegold.html

[skylark]

simple simon, on Nov 22 2009, 12:54 PM, said:

Hello everyone,

There is a story circulating that the US gold deposits at Fort Knox include many fake gold bars!

In October of 2009 the Chinese received a shipment of gold bars from the USA which they decided to test to guarantee the purity and weight. In this test, four small holes are drilled into the gold bars and the metal is then analyzed.

Officials were shocked to learn that the bars were fake. They contained cores of tungsten with only a outer coating of real gold. What's more, these gold bars, containing serial numbers for tracking, originated in the US and had been stored in Fort Knox for years. There were reportedly between 5,600 to 5,700 bars, weighing 400 oz. each, in the shipment!

http://www.viewzone.com/fakegold.html

*Yep Simon and all,
...Heard about that...all over the 'NET' alright. Wonder if there will be a good jounalistic investigative follow up to this?/'S'

[simple simon]

yes I also wonder - maybe the faked data climate change scandal will drown this topic / keep the media looking elsewhere?

Simon