Word: bullion
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...Sierra Club cutups are not the most impudent manipulators of bad U.S. mine law. New techniques for extracting bullion from low-grade ore have touched off a little-noticed gold rush in the West, devastating huge areas, often at high-altitude sites that almost inevitably pollute the headwaters of rivers. A worst example in the making, environmentalists fear, is a gold mine that Noranda Inc., a big Canadian firm operating through a subsidiary of a subsidiary called Crown Butte Mines, intends to operate in fragile Montana high country 2.5 miles from the northeast corner of Yellowstone Park and entirely surrounded...
Gold and platinum pushed higher in modest trade on the London bullion market with an upbeat, but cautious resumption of US trading after Friday's holiday. Financial Times, July...
Pssst! Want to get rich quick? Stop buying gold bullion. Forget the stock market. Bag the racehorses. Just get your head out of the sand and buy some ostriches...
...communist, Muslim and military rebels. And he is rumored to be planning to end the government's campaign to seize the Marcos billions. Last week the official charged with retrieving the "hidden wealth" recommended a compromise with Imelda to split the proceeds, if recovered, of a fortune in gold bullion said to be stashed in Switzerland...
What gold Iraq possesses is being sold to obtain hard currency needed to pay for essential imports. Gold Fields Minerals Services, a London-based consulting firm, reported last week that in the past six months Iraq may have secretly sold off up to 50 tons of its bullion reserve, which was last reported, in 1977, to stand at 129 tons. That could explain how Saddam came up with enough hard cash to thumb his nose at a United Nations offer to let him sell $1.6 billion in oil to buy much needed food and medical products abroad...