A Russian ship carrying 700 tons of gold is missing off Russia’s eastern coast.
A Russian ship carrying 700 tons of gold is missing off Russia’s eastern coast.
The dry-cargo freighter Amurskaya, operated by a company based in Nikolayevsk-on-Amur, went missing in the Okhotsk sea on Sunday. It had a nine-member crew on board, local prosecutors who are checking the case said in a statement.
The ore came from Polymetal’s Avlayakan mine and was supposed to be delivered to its Hakanja processing plant, the company said in an emailed comment. It declined to give further details. At current gold prices , the 700 tonnes of gold ore may cost around $230,000, analyst Sergey Donskoy at Societe Generale said. Each tonne of ore out of the Avlayakan mine contains about 6 grammes of gold.
If this was a movie, the ship is right now hidden in an underground lair somewhere, being offloaded as engineers work to disguise it.
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A Russian ship carrying 700 tons of gold is missing off Russia’s eastern coast.
The dry-cargo freighter Amurskaya, operated by a company based in Nikolayevsk-on-Amur, went missing in the Okhotsk sea on Sunday. It had a nine-member crew on board, local prosecutors who are checking the case said in a statement.
The ore came from Polymetal’s Avlayakan mine and was supposed to be delivered to its Hakanja processing plant, the company said in an emailed comment. It declined to give further details. At current gold prices , the 700 tonnes of gold ore may cost around $230,000, analyst Sergey Donskoy at Societe Generale said. Each tonne of ore out of the Avlayakan mine contains about 6 grammes of gold.
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There’s a pretty big difference between 700 tons of gold and 700 tons of gold ore.
The $230,000 figure cited is the approximate value of the refined gold at current prices (~$55,000/kg). I’m not familiar with gold ore smelting, but unless the pirates already have an operation going, or are going to fence the ore to someone who does, it hardly seems worth the trouble.
True, but it does sound like the beginning of a typical Clive Cussler novel.