The New York Times: How We Traced U.S. Government Gold to a Drug Cartel
The New York Times: U.S. Mint Buys Drug Cartel Gold and Sells It as ‘American’
Every year, the United States Mint sells more than $1 billion of investment-grade gold coins. Each is stamped with an icon like the bald eagle, signifying the government’s guarantee, required by law, ...
Investigation finds gold from cartel-controlled Colombian mines enters the U.S. supply chain and reaches the U.S. Mint, exposing weak oversight and potential national security risks.
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Are you in an area known for alluvial gold? If theres no gold, theres no gold. If no one before you has found gold on your stretch of river,.. well good luck. There should be gold there from before the dam was built even in the minutest amount. People are great at extracting gold but when it reaches a point of diminishing returns the smart people move to a more productive area. If you are like ...
The fine gold model used slanted riffles (as did the one I rebuilt), and the model for coarser material used riffles that were parallel to the stroke. I do not remember exactly what angle the angled riffles were at, but I might have that info somewhere. I think the BGS unit was about 10* off the stroke line. Also, Wilfley's table was not ...