D@mn ... he's back from the grave!
Posted on 10/30/2012 2:30:35 PM PDT by DogByte6RER
Ship with 700 tons of gold ore disappears off Russia
MOSCOW – A vessel with a nine-person crew and 700 tons of gold ore onboard has disappeared in stormy seas off Russia's Pacific Coast.
The ship sent a distress call on Sunday as it was sailing from the coastal town of Neran to Feklistov Island in the Sea of Okhotsk.
The vessel, hired by mining company Polymetal, was carrying 700 tons of gold ore from one deposit to another where it was to be processed. Gold ore is the material from which gold is extracted and contains only a small percentage of the precious metal.
Polymetal's spokesman on Monday would not estimate the value of the cargo.
The company said it has shipped ore via that route before, and there was nothing unusual in shipping it by the sea.
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D@mn ... he's back from the grave!
Stormy seas my rear. It was absconded with, just you wait and see.
Shantarsky archipelago is a group of islands situated in the west part of the Sea of Okhotsk
If you miss the word ore in the title (like me) it makes it a whole different story.
anybody see kelly’s heroes?
I suspect there’s a lot of flexability in that rough seas excuse.
one ounce of gold per 5+ tons of ore
700 tons... maybe 140 ounces
prolly looked juicer on paper
“There you go with those negative waves again.”
On a more serious note, a quik paint job, name change, and a refinery with no morals, and you’re good to go.
Had to take a guess. But say the grade of ore is average, at 2 grams of gold per ton. 2 grams = 0.7 ounces x 200 is about 14 ounces of gold at $1700 is about $24,000. (I have no idea on types of ounces, tons/tonnes, etc. - it’s an estimate).
It depends on the grade , of course.
I have an alibi.
A couple of million+ after processing. Don’t know squat about the cost of processing and purifying, but it couldn’t be easy to hide the ship and the facilities to process. Looks more like a sunken ship to me
At about 1 oz./ton, that’s only about $1M...
Worry about the 9 men and the ship!
2gms = 0.07 oz (you’re off by a decimal point)
also, there were 700 tonnes, not 200
“My little babushka...I have for you a new necklace, my love.”
“Igor, you idiot! Have you had too much vodka again? That’s just a nice chain with a rock on it!”
prolly not many places can process ore like that... start there
The Italian Job?
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