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by raintrees 4147 days ago
So if they are melting down bars and reforming them, that should put to rest the theory that The Federal Reserve's bars have been tampered with and are just gold-plated tungsten... right?

The tungsten substitutes are just part of "normal" dodgy street counterfeiting? http://www.businessinsider.com/tungsten-filled-gold-bars-fou...