the canadian mint says it can account for 41 gold bars that somehow went missing. and the story may even be true:

It was the mystery of the missing gold - some $15-million worth - and the Mounties were on the case. They descended on the Royal Canadian Mint, seeking a culprit in the touchy tale of 17,500 ounces somehow vanishing from the Crown corporation that refines the stuff.

This week, the RCMP rendered its verdict: No heist. In fact, say third-party experts who also snooped around within the Mint's fortified walls, the explanation is more banal, if no less bewildering: accounting errors and processing losses - gold disappearing on the books and in the chlorination baths.

Some of it may even be recoverable.

That would be good news for the Mint, which faced the humiliation this spring of searching for the equivalent of 41 bars of gold, before calling in police to see if brazen criminals had been at play.

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/missing-gold-never-left-the-mint/article1379572/