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This special tour follows the process of minting a silver coin from raw silver to final strike.

This is a great synopsis of how mining companies extract gold from the earth, process it and form it into ingots.

Changes in global gold demand, from booming investment demand in Asia to European and US debt concerns that have re-solidified gold’s long tenure as the ultimate safe-haven asset for turbulent times.

This is an awesome short video showing a selection of scrap gold being melted from start to finish, then being poured into a mold to make an ingot.

Silent film, with title cards, describing operations at the Royal Mint of Canada in 1920, from gold and silver bars all the way to the finished coins. It would be interesting to compare with how Loonies are pressed out nowadays.

Turn that scrap silver in to units that you can use for trading if times get tough.

Gold Is a “Fear Index” That Must Come Down … That’s sort of how Don Hays views gold, as an indicator that’s in the way of the next great bull market.

Jeff Nielson: In my writing a couple of themes occur with regularity: how “fractional-reserve banking” (with purely fiat currencies) is nothing less than serial stealing from the general population; and how gold and silver can protect people from this cycle of theft.

Gold remains our best means of economic measurement. It is not a perfect or 100% consistent measure of wealth, but it is our best. Due to its monetary properties, gold can be used to measure wealth across generations.

In Late September, 2010 the first of several reports of suspicious Engelhard 100oz silver bars emerged. They were underweight, and it at first appeared that they were real Engelhard bars that were shaved. However, upon receiving a sample, it turned out not to be made of silver, and is most likely lead.