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PDAC 2014: Why Goldfinger should increasingly be considered non-fiction – Williams

5-3-2014 < SGT Report 91 145 words
 

by Grant Williams, MineWeb.com


In an entertaining presentation on the first day of the 2014 Prospectors and Developers Association of Canada Conference, Grant Williams, the author of “Things that make you go Hmmm” newsletter outlined why Ian Flemming’s book, Goldfinger, the seventh in his James Bond series, might soon have to be reclassified as non-fiction.


Of course, Williams acknowledged, the eponymous villain does not exist, nor is it likely that there is a concerted plot to break into Fort Knox currently being planned, but, as in the book, there is a significant flow of gold taking place from west to east. And, like in the book, much of that flow is being routed through Switzerland.


While this flow eastwards should be nothing new to regular Mineweb readers, the numbers presented by Williams bear repeating.


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