THE DENVER MINT'S GOLD 上市 Deposited
The E-Sylum: Volume 6, Number 49, November 16, 2003, Article 11
THE DENVER MINT'S GOLD
The Rocky Mountain News also published a companion
article about the gold stored at the Denver Mint facility."Few people in Denver know that the Italianate mansion
downtown is home to 18 percent of U.S. gold reserves.
But U.S. Mint spokeswoman Becky Bailey says it's public
information.Piled together, the pure gold bricks in the mint would fill
three 10-foot-by-11-foot rooms to a height of 8 feet.Each bar weighs 27.5 pounds, according to the Treasury
Department's Web site. Altogether, the Denver gold weighs
3 million pounds.""Not long ago, tourists lined up on Cherokee Street
downtown for tours of the coin factory. But those tours
ended after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.Tours for schoolchildren still can be arranged, but adults
hoping to see the mint must ask their congressman to
arrange a visit.""The city of Denver plans to build a jail on the current site
of the Rocky Mountain News building, just west of the mint.That would put hundreds of prisoners next door to $17 billion.
[Treasury Department's inspector general Louis] King was
startled to hear that Denver hopes to build a prisoner tunnel
from the planned jail to the courthouse, which is just east of
the mint. The tunnel would go past the mint's basement."We'll have to keep an eye on that," he said."
To read the full article, see:
http://rockymountainnews.com/drmn/local/article/0,1299,DRMN_15_2418888,00.html
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