HIGH-GRADE NI-CU-PT-PD-ZN-CR-AU-V-TI DISCOVERIES IN THE "RING OF FIRE"

NI 43-101 Update (September 2012): 11.1 Mt @ 1.68% Ni, 0.87% Cu, 0.89 gpt Pt and 3.09 gpt Pd and 0.18 gpt Au (Proven & Probable Reserves) / 8.9 Mt @ 1.10% Ni, 1.14% Cu, 1.16 gpt Pt and 3.49 gpt Pd and 0.30 gpt Au (Inferred Resource)

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FYI.... offical Gold reserves.

posted on Aug 19, 2008 11:17AM

Officially reported gold reserves

The largest gold holdings in tonnes as reported by the World Gold Council can be seen in the table below, per 22 September 2005 and 14 December 2007, ranked by their 2005 holdings.[6] The United States' holding of gold is worth approximately $241 billion (July 2008). Although the United States has the largest reserves of individual countries, in total the eurozone gold holdings are greater (11,065 tonnes as of December 2007).

RankCountry/OrganizationGold
(tonnes)Gold's share of reserves
(%)
World official gold holding (June 2008)[6]
- World 29,813.1 -
1 United States 8,133.5 78.2%
2 Germany 3,417.4 66.3%
3 International Monetary Fund 3,217.3 -
4 France 2,562.3 59.4%
5 Italy 2,451.8 68.1%
6 Switzerland 1,100.7 39.8%
7 Japan 765.2 2.1%
8 Netherlands 621.4 61.2%
9 People's Republic of China 600.0 1.0%
10 European Central Bank 563.6 24.8%
11 Russia 457.9 2.4%
12 Taiwan 423.3 4.0%
13 Portugal 382.5 86.8%
14 India 357.7 3.3%
15 Venezuela 356.8 33.3%
16 United Kingdom 310.3 14.8%
17 Lebanon 286.8 36.9%
18 Spain 281.6 40.4%
19 Austria 280.0 41.7%
20 Belgium 227.6 37.2%
21 Algeria 173.6 3.7%
22 Sweden 146.6 14.0%
23 Libya 143.8 4.5%
24 Saudi Arabia 143.0 11.1%
25 Bank for International Settlements 134.9 -
26 Philippines 130.8 10.1%
27 Singapore 127.4 2.0%
28 South Africa 124.3 10.3%
29 Turkey 116.1 4.2%
30 Greece 112.8 89.9%
31 Romania 103.7 6.9%
32 Poland 102.9 3.8%
33 Thailand 84.0 2.2%
34 Australia 79.8 6.7%
35 Kuwait 79.0 11.9%
36 Egypt 75.6 6.2%
37 Indonesia 73.1 3.5%
38 Kazakhstan 67.4 10.0%
39 Denmark 66.5 4.9%
40 Pakistan 65.3 14.2%
41 Argentina 54.7 3.1%
42 Finland 49.1 16.1%
43 Bulgaria 39.8 5.9%
44 West African Economic and Monetary Union 36.5 9.4%
45 Malaysia 36.4 0.9%
46 Slovakia 35.1 5.0%
47 Peru 34.7 3.0%
48 Brazil 33.6 0.5%
49 Bolivia 28.3 12.2%
50 Ecuador 26.3 13.1%
51 Ukraine 26.2 2.2%
52 Syria 25.9 -
53 Morocco 22.0 2.4%
54 Nigeria 21.4 1.0%
55 Belarus 19.5 10.7%
56 South Korea 14.3 0.2%
57 Jordan 14.1 6.1%
58 Cyprus 13.9 31.8%
59 Czech Republic 13.2 1.0%
60 Netherlands Antilles 13.1 35.5%
61 Cambodia 12.4 14.6%
62 Qatar 12.4 2.2%
63 Serbia 12.2 2.3%
64 Laos 8.1 27.5%
65 Latvia 7.7 3.4%
66 El Salvador 7.3 8.4%
67 Economic and Monetary Community of Central Africa 7.1 1.6%
68 Guatemala 6.9 4.3%
69 Colombia 6.9 0.9%
70 Macedonia 6.8 8.1%
71 Tunisia 6.8 2.3%
72 Lithuania 5.8 2.3%
73 Ireland 5.5 16.8%
74 Mongolia 5.2 11.3%
75 Sri Lanka 5.2 3.9%
76 Bahrain 4.7 -
77 Bangladesh 3.5 1.7%
78 Canada 3.4 0.2%
79 Slovenia 3.2 8.4%
80 Aruba 3.1 17.0%
81 Hungary 3.1 0.3%
82 Mozambique 3.0 5.3%
83 Mexico 2.8 0.1%
84 Kyrgyzstan 2.6 6.5%
85 Luxembourg 2.3 8.7%
86 Albania 2.2 2.7%
87 Hong Kong 2.1 0.0%
88 Iceland 2.0 2.0%
89 Papua New Guinea 2.0 2.6%
90 Mauritius 1.9 2.5%
91 Trinidad and Tobago 1.9 0.7%
92 Tajikistan 1.8 -
93 Yemen 1.6 0.5%
94 Suriname 1.4 7.7%
95 Cameroon 0.9 0.9%
96 Honduras 0.7 0.7%
97 Dominican Republic 0.6 0.6%
98 Gabon 0.4 0.9%
99 Malawi 0.4 7.9%
100 Central African Republic 0.3 10.3%
101 Chad 0.3 1.0%
102 Republic of the Congo 0.3 0.4%
103 Uruguay 0.3 0.1%
104 Estonia 0.2 0.2%
105 Chile 0.2 0.0%
106 Malta 0.2

0.9%
107 Costa Rica 0.1

0.0%
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