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Hong Kong and the Gold Trade

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Nov 15, 2012
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Hong Kong, sitting China’s on flank and on the route to India, appears to be the nexus for a huge amount of gold moving around the planet, with as much as 60 metric tons of the precious metal crossing through in some months, worth US$3.32 billion at the current price per ounce.

There is so much gold passing through the territory from as far away as Switz…

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