Blood Gold Being Used By The U.S. Mint?

It's impossible to really know for sure the answer to this question. I watched an interesting documentary last night that addressed this issue. Apparently it might be true. It's all about illegal gold coming from the Amazon rain forest in Peru. It was part of the Netflix series "Dirty Money". Has anyone read about or seen this episode and what are your thoughts? The U.S. Mint would not respond to requests for info when approached by the makers of this piece. Here are a couple of links on the subject of illegal gold. A Stunning Look At The Illegal Gold Mining And Smuggling From South America To Miami – Silver Doctors NTR Metals and Illegal South American Gold (coinweek.com)

 

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We may never know the truth.

 

Chances are if you own any quantity of gold that traces of it could have been looted, stolen, killed for etc.

 

Tommy,

It is the "way" of the imperfect world we live in. We can probably get upset about EVERYTHING we own if we traced back far enough. I got over it long ago when I learned what an abortion was. I suggest you do also because life is to short to worry about things we cannot change - like TP grading standards.

 

Does your wife/girlfriend/daughter/daughter in law own a diamond? If so, I 100% guarantee that it is a “blood diamond”—it came from the diamond mines of South Africa. Moral outrages are nothing new in this world.

 

Own any silver coinage from Latin America minted in the 16th-19th century - chances are the Spanish enslaved locals to dig out the silver and then ship it to the motherland.

 

False. What can I get if your 100% guarantee is not true? Anything? A diamond, hopefully? (insert smiley face here).

Canada. Brazil. Guinea. Sierra Leone. Russia. China. Australia.

 

...and every time you take a breath, you breathe at least one molecule that came out as a dinosaur fart...such is life

 

Such a pleasant thought.........

 

Whereupon the Kings of Spain recoined it and used it to pay off their debts all over Europe.

 

Actually , in 2020 carats all areas : Russia ( by far), Botswana, Demo. Republic of Congo, Australia, Canada. The GIA predicts Russia and Canada will increase even more so over the others in the next few years. Of course there will be arguments by the countries as to who has the most yet to come. Jim

 

I assume most gold has blood on it, and I don't care.

The article seems to be trying, to some extent, to shift blame to Americans who buy gold or products containing gold. Typical. I won't be made to feel guilty for the actions of evil people.

 

No one is innocent, but some are more guilty than the others.

 

I'm as innocent as a new-born babe...

 

Ah, yessssss!

 

B. Traven on Gold:

From The Treasure of the Sierra Madre by B. Traven, published in 1935.

Anyway, gold is a very devilish sort of a thing, believe me, boys.
In the first place, it changes your character entirely.
When you have it your soul is no longer the same as it was before.
No getting away from that.

You may have so much piled up that you can't carry it away;
but, bet your blessed paradise, the more you have, the more you want to add,
to make it just that much more.

Men, Christians and Jews alike, are so greedy or brave where gold is at stake that,
regardless how many human beings it may cost, as long as the gold itself
does not give out and disappear, they will risk life, health, and mind,
and face every danger and risk conceivable, to get hold of the precious metal.

Not dirty, baby. No, not dirty.
Only I know whom I am sitting here with by the fire and what sort of ideas
even supposedly decent people can get into their heads when gold is at stake.

The gold worn around the finger of an elegant lady or as a crown on the
head of a king was more often than not passed through hands of creatures
who would make that king or elegant lady shudder.

There is little doubt that gold is oftener bathed in human blood than in hot suds.
A noble king who wished to show his high-mindedness could do no better than
have his crown made of iron.

Gold is for thieves and swindlers.
For this reason they own most of it.
The rest is owned by those who do not care where the gold comes from or
in what sort of hands it has been.

 

Russia and Canada....actually....are the largest producers since 2018.
You accidently left out 13 locations.

 

This right here. You could have a mountain of evidence and still not get any kind of admission.

 

And if you own any early US silver coins, say before 1850, there is a very good chance that they are made of that same Latin American silver. In fact for most any silver coins made during that period from anywhere.

 

Jim-P, posted: "No one is innocent, but some are more guilty than the others."

Such hogwash!

Don't count me in with the whinny, brainwashed, "educated" snowflakes sucking up that drivel. I guess that's why they feel the same way about slavery.

Blood gold, blood diamonds, blood money, blood booze give me all that I can get!