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• n  a mass of precious metal
• n  gold or silver in bars or ingots

• But traditionally, bullion buyers fall into three categories: THE HOARDERS, who come mostly from France and the Middle East, where faith in paper currency is low.
• Beginning this week, Americans can buy, hold and trade gold bullion for the first time since Franklin Roosevelt banned private ownership of the yellow metal 41 years ago.
• Downfall of a bullion dealer For a while at least, William Alderdice, 39, and his brother James, 26, seemed to have the Midas touch.

News & Articles

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• Investors on the Sidelinesas Gold, Silver End "Week of Nothingness" Flat
  WHOLESALE gold bullion prices continued to hover near $1380 an ounce Friday, while silver traded either side of $21.80 an ounce and stocks and commodities ticked higher, regaining some of the ground lost this week.
  June 14, 2013 - GoldSeek.com
• Leading Online Bullion Dealer Provident Precious Metals, LLC Partners With Dallas-Based Elemetal, LLC.
  DALLAS, June 12, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Provident Metals™, a leading online provider of bullion, currency and numismatic coins, announced that it has partnered with global precious metals company Elemetal, ...
  June 12, 2013 - PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance
• Leading Online Bullion Dealer Provident Precious Metals, LLC Partners With Dallas-Based Elemetal, LLC.
  DALLAS, June 12, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Provident Metals™, a leading online provider of bullion, currency and numismatic coins, announced that it has partnered with global precious metals company Elemetal, ...
  June 12, 2013 - PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance

Quotes

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• Nick Sherry in guardian.co.uk
  What we have seen for the past decade, under laws we have inherited from the former government, is the retirement gold watch replaced by a truckload of gold bullion,said Nick Sherry, Australia's corporate governance minister.
• Lawrence Cannon in NEWS.com.au
  Transport Minister Lawrence Cannon, who is also responsible for the Mint, said the coin "takes Canada's reputation in the gold bullion industry to an unprecedented level".
• St Ambrose in The Market Oracle
  If there is any theme to the bullion rush, it is fear that the global currency system is unravelling,says Ambrose Evans-Pritchard in The Daily Telegraph. "Or, put another way, gold itself is reclaiming its historic role as the ultimate...