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unusual facts about precious metals



Master of the treasury

When the royal properties were considerably reduced under King Andrew II of Hungary (1205-1235; see Comitatus (Kingdom of Hungary) for details), the treasurer also became responsible for all royal income from royal régales (coinage, exchange of coins, precious metals management, mining monopoly, salt monopoly, customs duty), from the taxes of royal towns etc.


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Commodity market

George Gero, precious metals commodities expert at the Royal Bank of Canada (RBC) Wealth Management section reported that he had not seen selling of gold bullion as panicked as this in his forty years in commodity markets.

Give Me My Arrows and Give Me My Bow

:In the Great North American lakes there are islands bearing the name of "Manitou," which signifies "THE GREAT SPIRIT," and Indian tradition declares that in these islands the Great Spirit concealed the precious metals, thereby showing that he did not desire they should be possessed by man; and that whenever some rash mortal has attempted to obtain treasure from "The Manitou Isle," his canoe was always overwhelmed by a tempest.

Gold Line

Goldline International, a retail seller of gold and silver coins, and precious metals for investors and collectors

Joachim Frederick of Brieg

His Duchy also expanded thanks of the districts of Dzierżoniów and Srebrna Góra, who had rich deposits of precious metals.

Métaux Précieux SA Métalor

Soon after being taken over by the Société de Banque Suisse (SBS) in 1918, the workshop - which by now had some thirty employees - started refining precious metals and producing bank ingots.

Monex

Monex Precious Metals, a precious metals firm in Newport Beach, California

Multilateral trading facility

MTFs have been launched in other asset classes as well, one of the examples is LMAX Exchange an FCA regulated MTF for trading spot FX and precious metals.

Natural Resources Research Institute

The lab is currently developing a focus on extraction of non-ferrous minerals from Northeast Minnesota's Duluth Complex of copper, nickel and precious metals-bearing ore.

Ocimum centraliafricanum

It is well known for its tolerance of high levels of copper in the soil, and is even used by geologists prospecting for precious metals.

Order of Victory

The State Precious Metals and Gems Repository (Gokhran) in Russia has two orders: K. Rokossovskiy's and M. Rola-Zymierski's.

Philip Klapwijk

After studies at the London School of Economics and the College of Europe in Bruges where he obtained degrees in economics he started work as an analyst with Gold Fields Mineral Services (now GFMS), a precious metals and base metals forecasting & consultancy company specialising in global gold, silver, platinum and palladium market research, reports, annual reviews and analysis.

Scotia-Mocatta

With Peter Hambro as Deputy Managing Director and Henry Jarecki as Chairman, the firm dealt in options and futures trading in precious metals and pursued bullion deals in Russia, the United States, South America, Switzerland, Mexico, Germany, China, Hungary, Australia, Japan and South Africa, and became the largest gold and silver counter party to the Soviet Union.