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Its purpose was to house gold then stored in New York City and Philadelphia, in keeping with a strategy to move gold reserves away from coastal cities to areas less vulnerable to foreign military attack. The first set of gold shipments to the depository occurred during the first half of 1937. A second set was completed in 1941.
The West Point Mint is a U.S. Mint production and depository facility erected in 1937 near the U.S. Military Academy in West Point, New York, United States.As of 2019 the mint holds 22% of the United States' gold reserves, or approximately 54,000,000 troy ounces (1,700,000 kg) [2] (over $100 billion USD as of 2021).
This list of gold mines in the United States is subsidiary to the list of mines article and lists working, defunct and future mines in the country and is organised by the primary mineral output. For practical purposes stone, marble and other quarries may be included in this list.
At gold’s current spot price of about $2,920 per ounce, however, the market value of those holdings is nearly $765 billion. There’s debate about whether that bookkeeping change would have any ...
The West Point facility is still used for storage of part of the United States' gold bullion reserves, and West Point is now the United States' production facility for gold, silver, platinum, and palladium American Eagle coins. [22] In 2019, West Point produced limited quantities of circulating quarters bearing the "W" mint mark for the first time.
The primary risks for physical gold — at least gold stored at home — are theft and natural disasters, says Brett Elliott, marketing director at the American Precious Metals Exchange (APMEX).
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Besides placer deposits of gold, and gold bearing quartz in weathered rock, gold also occurs in quartz veins. The most profitable veins, in the Dahlonega District, occur in the contact zone between mica-schists and granite or diorite. [2]: 59–61 The discovery of gold in the Georgia Gold Belt in 1828 led to the Georgia Gold Rush.