Firstly, almost 1 Moz silver left the COMEX eligible (customer) vaults on the 29th....I realize Adrian Douglas has some doubts about missing numbers and some such,,,,or mysterious draw-downs that don't get reported,,,,etc...And yeah,,,,I agree up to a point....But the COMEX boys often leave days out of reporting too...And this might explain some of this...Ok,,,,let us assume Adrian is correct and they are playing with the data for the registered stocks....This is supported (somewhat) in that the eligible stocks are showing significant draw-downs right now WAY in excess of the registered (dealer) stock draw-downs...But again, there are days almost always around long weekends, where no data is reported. Now the management can claim technical problems to anyone wondering why their delivery was not listed - and they can do this because waiting periods for registered draw-downs are quite long - several months long. Or they can stream data to hide movements better out of the registered stocks to those who are cabal members. (This is one of those times when the data is old, I might add.) So the crooks can get their metal,,,and the data remains unchanged - and is increasingly in error as to the real stockpile numbers. The management can always claim that the metal went out during one of these gaps if someone seriously questions what is going on.. Hope that is clear.

I should also note that those numbers listed for taking delivery (if not metal) is still way up there and this is late....We may see fewer cashing out this time(?).

Ok, point two. Do you know if there is any weight variation in 100 ounce gold bars representing one physical contract of gold? Why I'm asking is the strange figures quoted in the gold stocks page in the COMEX web site...Is there variation in a 100 ounce bars? I don't think so as there is no variation that I know of in a 100 ounce silver bar....just the 1000 ounce one...That being said, there are some funny numbers on this page for gold deliveries: http://www.cmegroup.com/trading/energy-metals/files/Gold_Stocks.xls

I've seen this sort of thing before and wonder at their apparently being small gold in movement out of the COMEX.