Makes you wonder how many fake gold bars really are out there being passed around.... LBMA is a concern...
where to buy the stuff, how close it is to gold ? Tungsten Junction got many items sold out , they come is odd shape, and not for stacking
Doubt this is much of problem, who but the most naive buys 12kg lbma let alone 1kg or even 100gm gold bars from shady dealers or online forumsl. Only small time criminals lol.
I've stood in a room and watched gold kilo bars being chopped with a guillotine - that particular dealer said they cut *every* bar they buy back over a certain size. They've found tungsten inside kilo bars before. Only needs to be one in a thousand to make a loss. There's other detection methods like ultrasonic testing that work great on a smaller scale, but this was faster when you're handling the volume they were, and everything is sent for refining and fabrication into new bars. Kind of a shame to watch mint PAMP bars get the chop, but if you were spending $50-60k on a single item, you would like to know it was authentic.
