Jim Willie has a theory about how this much gold could have gone...

Jim Willie has a theory about how this much gold could have gone missing in his latest, at http://www.gold-speculator.com/jim-willie-cb/15907-gold-mount-st-helens.html

"The Canadian Mint has released information that admits to 17.5 thousand troy ounces of gold and other precious metals missing, whose estimated value is $15.3 million. No credible explanation has been offered for the missing inventory. These are not lamps, boxes of paper, crates of machine tools, floor tile, stereo sets, or power tools sitting in inventory. These are gold bars. Or were they tungsten bars? Permit the Jackass to surmise that the Canadian Mint were interrupted in their coin production process. They poured what they thought were gold bars into a cauldron, but since tungsten melts at 8000 degrees, and gold melts at 2200 degrees, the cauldron soup was lumpy with tungsten cheese. Instead of admitting they held and discovered 17.5 thousand ounces of tungsten, sure to rile the Wall Street boys, sure to turn the gold market upside down more than already, sure to invite severe scrutiny to many bankers who already face criticism (but not prosecution) over mortgage bond fraud, THEY JUST SAY IT IS MISSING !!!"

A novel thought, as one might expect from Willie. But maybe not so far-fetched. Your thoughts are probably closer to the mark Chuckey, and it does seem suspicious the explanation of double counting sales, and gold shrinkage...? Weight just disappearing, lol.