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Gold Bars Must Be Tested For A Real Audit to Mean Anything - Tungsten Counterfeit

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The density of Gold is 19.32 g/cc and the density for Tungsten is 19.3

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Feature Article  •  Precious Metals
Gold Bars Must Be Tested For A Real Audit to Mean Anything - Tungsten Counterfeit
Ernest Hancock
   FreedomsPhoenix Search of Hundreds of Thousands of our headlines (Gold Tungsten) tells the story. The density of gold is 19.32 g/cc and the density for tungsten is 19.3
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News Link  •  Gold and Silver
Rumors confirmed: Gold bars actually ARE being spiked with tungsten (photos)
06-05-2012  •  SilverDoctors 
Here are pictures from a discovery made in March. The bar passed a hand-held xrf scan which showed 99.98% pure AU. The tungsten was only discovered when the bar was physically cut in half.
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Reported by: Chip Saunders
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News Link  •  China
This Chinese Company Proudly Sells Tungsten-Filled Gold Bars
09-20-2012  •  http://www.businessinsider.com, Rob Wile 
Earlier, we reported on how gold-plated tungsten bars found their way to New York City's Diamond District.
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Reported by: Freedomsphoenix Readerfour
www.BlackMarketFridays.com
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Feature Article  •  Casey Research Articles
"Get Your Gold the Hell Outta Here!"
Doug Hornig
   It seems that everyone these days wants gold. Real, physical gold coins that they can hold in their hands, or bars that they're assured are resting safely in a well-guarded vault. HSBC's New York vault, for example, buried deep below its 5th Avenue t
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News Link  •  Precious Metals
Gold Counterfeiting Goes Viral: 10 Tungsten-Filled Gold Bars Are Discovered In Manhattan
09-25-2012  •  http://www.prisonplanet.com, Zero Hedge 
A few days ago, our report on the discovery of a single 10 oz Tungsten-filled gold bar in Manhattan's jewelry district promptly went viral, as it meant that a tungsten-based, gold-counterfeiting operation, previously isolated solely to the UK and Eur
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News Link  •  Precious Metals
How A Manhattan Jeweler Wound Up With Gold Bars Filled With Tungsten
09-20-2012  •  http://www.businessinsider.com, Rob Wile 
In March, certain corners of the Internet exploded when a one-kilo gold bar was allegedly found to have been "salted" with Tungsten, a metal with a similar weight but far less valuable.
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News Link  •  Precious Metals
Zerohedge: Tungsten-Filled 10 Oz Gold Bar found in Manhatten Jewelry District
09-19-2012  •  http://www.dailypaul.com, by Bob-45 
It is one thing for tungsten-filled gold bars to appear in the UK, or in Germany: after all out of sight, and across the Atlantic, certainly must mean out of mind, and out of the safe.
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midfest.info
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News Link  •  Precious Metals
Apparently, the Global Gold Market is Stuffed Full of 400 oz Tungsten Salted Bars
11-19-2009  •  ChrisMartenson.com 
The amount of "salted tungsten" gold bars in question was allegedly between 5,600 and 5,700 ?" 400 oz ?" good delivery bars [roughly 60 metric tonnes].
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News Link  •  Precious Metals
Zinc Dimes, Tungsten Gold & Lost Respect
11-28-2009  •  kitco.com 
In October, the Hong Kong bankers discovered some gold bars shipped from the United States were actually tungsten with gold plating. This is the exact same Modus Operandi as the silver clad zinc dimes from 45 years ago.
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Reported by: Ernest Hancock
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News Link  •  Gold and Silver
One Ton Gold Shipment Into Hong Kong Revealed To Contain Just Worthless Metal
06-06-2014  •  zerohedge.com 
Two years ago, stories of fake tungsten-filled gold coins and bars began to spread;
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Reported by: Robert Lee
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News Link  •  Precious Metals
Fake Gold Bars: Tungsten Bar At Gold Foundry With Bank Origin
03-01-2010  •  ZeroHedge.com 
German TV station ProSieben finds what appears to be some evocative proof of gold counterfeiting, in the form of tungsten gold substitutes coming to the W.C.Heraeus foundry, which is the world's largest precious metals refiner and fabricator...
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News Link  •  Economy - International
Faking Gold Bars (Publisher: Very informative article)
11-28-2009  •  arclein 
After reading that gold and tungsten has the same density, I cracked open my handy copy of 'The Practicing Scientist's Handbook (1978)' and got the exact values. The density of gold is 19.32 g/cc and the density for tungsten is 19.3. Ouch! The diff
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News Link  •  Currencies
Why Debt is Not Money
03-22-2016  •  https://www.lewrockwell.com - Doug Casey 
Gold's main use, contrary to the belief of some, isn't in jewelry or dentistry--although those uses are important. Its main use has almost always been as money. But gold's ancillary uses are growing in importance because, given its physical ch
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www.BlackMarketFridays.com
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10 Gauge vs 12 Gauge: The Shotgun Shootout Part II
Sam Jacobs
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News Link  •  Gold and Silver
Perth Mint Sold Billions In Diluted Gold To China, Tried To Cover It Up; Report
03-07-2023  •  https://www.zerohedge.com, by Tyler Durden 
Over the years, we have periodically reported (here, here, here, and here) of the occasional gold bar discovered as counterfeit, including gold-plated tungsten bars, but most (if not all) have been via third-party fraudsters.
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Feature Article  •  Casey Research Articles
Anatomy of a Three-Bagger: The Brett Resources Story
Jeff Clark
   Shareholders were treated to a big win last month when Brett Resources (V.BBR) was bought out by Osisko Mining (T.OSK), giving investors a triple from our initial recommendation. We talked with Brett Chairman Ron Netolitzky to get the story behind ho
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News Link  •  Gold and Silver
German Central Bank Lists All It Gold in 2,302 Page Report
10-07-2015  •  globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com 
In response to numerous allegations of missing gold, stolen gold, gold filled with tungsten, rehypothecated gold, leased gold, etc., Germany's Central Bank has Listed All of Its Gold.
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News Link  •  Gold and Silver
83 Tons Of Fake Gold Bars: Gold Market Rocked By Massive China Counterfeiting Scandal
06-29-2020  •  Zero Hedge - Tyler Durden 
Over the years, we have periodically reported of the occasional gold bar discovered as counterfeit in Manhattan's Diamond District which instead of containing the yellow precious metal would be filled with gold-plated tungsten or in some cases copper
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Reported by: Donna Hancock
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News Link  •  Gold and Silver
83 Tons Of Fake Gold Bars: Gold Market Rocked By Massive China Counterfeiting Scandal
06-30-2020  •  https://www.zerohedge.com, by Tyler Durden 
Over the years, we have periodically reported of the occasional gold bar discovered as counterfeit in Manhattan's Diamond District which instead of containing the yellow precious metal would be filled with gold-plated tungsten or in some cases copper
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Reported by: Freedomsphoenix Readerfour
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News Link  •  Science
Revealed: Ancient meteorites showered Earth with gold
09-10-2011  •  Terrence Aym - Helium 
Twinkling stars may look like diamonds in the sky, but iron meteorites seeded the world with gold. That's the fascinating conclusion that a new study, "The tungsten isotopic composition of the Earth's mantle before the terminal bombardment," publi
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News Link  •  Gold and Silver
China Recasting Gold to Eliminate Tungsten Threat
01-30-2013  •  arclein 
The Chinese are removing thousands of metric tons of gold bars from London, New York, and Switzerland. They are recasting the bars, no longer to bear weights in ounces, but rather kilograms. The larger Good Delivery bars are being reduced into 1-kg
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I believe an ultra sound test will verify impurities.

Comment by dreamer
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I believe an ultra sound test will verify impurities.


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