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In response to "My wife poured a 19kg gold bar today. Gotta admit, I’m a little jealous. I’ve been in gold rooms before, but I’m the auditor so everyone is serious. " by mafic

Not gonna lie, I expected more gold in the gold bar. -- nm

Posted by Will Hunting (aka JoeMetz) Nov 26 '24, 05:24

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and bigger! but good for her. -- nm - amanda Nov 26, 05:24 18
- gold be dense. about US$1.6 million there. -- nm - mafic Nov 26, 05:29 17
  - Loco Zurich or loco London? -- nm - znufrii Nov 26, 05:32 12
    - I think Perth, but don’t hold me to that. A lot of African producers switched to Perth in the pandemic because they did special bullion flights. -- nm - mafic Nov 26, 05:39 11
      - Also: this could be a good addition to my “rob a remote gold mine” screenplay idea. -- nm - mafic Nov 26, 05:44 2
        
        sequel to Money Plane = Gold Plane! Starring Kelsey Grammer -- nm - Beaker 🍺 Nov 26, 05:51 1
        
        plot: the plane is too heavy, can't take off, crashes into ocean. marky mark swims up and uses a whale to drag gold to private island. -- nm - amanda Nov 26, 07:50
      - Interesting. The only reason I have any knowledge of it is because I was working on the prospectus for a fund we have that holds physical gold. -- (edited) - znufrii Nov 26, 05:44 7
        
        My company used to do Zurich and switched to mostly Perth because of it, but generally unless you’re hedged you go wherever has the best spot price. - mafic Nov 26, 05:50 6
        
        Also, because I'm very curious, what changed in 2012 that would make someone interested in investing only in post-2012 bars? -- nm* - znufrii Nov 26, 05:55 5
        
        Conspiracy stuff as far as I’m aware. There were some rumours about tungsten-filled gold bars in 2012 that caused some lasting suspicion - mafic Nov 26, 06:15 4
        
        I'm sure someone just looked at a list of densities and thought up a dumb plan, as if that's the only check that's done. -- (edited) - Reagen Nov 26, 07:46
        
        Huh. - znufrii Nov 26, 06:21 2
        
        From a strict refining point of view nothing has really changed. They might be talking equator principles or some other regulatory framework. - mafic Nov 26, 07:05 1
        
        Appreciate the insight, thanks! -- nm - znufrii Nov 26, 07:30
  - How do they make it all super shiny? I’m serious in I’d probably never think it was gold. -- nm - Will Hunting Nov 26, 05:30 3
    - Honest answer from lots of “what do you think this is?” photos from field geos: phones love colour correcting. - mafic Nov 26, 05:37 2
      - how realistic is the Gold Rush shows? there gold all looks super shiny -- nm - Beaker 🍺 Nov 26, 05:39 1
        
        They’re finding placer nuggets which will be pretty pure and they’re colour correcting to make it look pretty, not just going with the phone settings. -- nm - mafic Nov 26, 05:42

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