The People’s Bank of China, equivalent to the Federal Reserve in the U.S., has been busy attempting to acquire gold bullion wherever it can find it, according to Michael Lombardi, lead contributor to Profit Confidential. Lombardi believes that China is helping to fund its gold mining companies with capital, which is enabling it to buy gold mining companies overseas, mine the gold bullion, and return it back home where it can sell it to the People’s Bank of China.
In the recent Profit Confidential article, An Insatiable Appetite for Gold, Lombardi states that China is home to very large gold mining companies that produce 390 tons of gold bullion every year, which China is keeping for itself—not allowing the gold mining companies to export this gold bullion.
“China has banned all exports of gold bullion and ordered its gold mining companies to sell all of their gold bullion to the People’s Bank of China, says Lombardi.
Lombardi also highlights that Zijin Mining Group, the largest of China’s gold mining companies, has offered to pay a 46% premium for Norton Gold Fields, one of Australia’s gold mining companies. Zijin also owns a 60% controlling stake in Altynken, a major gold mining company based in Kazakhstan.
“Zijin has said that it is setting aside 5.5 billion yuan ($880 billion) of cash that it has on hand for acquisitions overseas,” says Lombardi.
Lombardi believes that China’s Mining Federation is studying different ways it can make capital more available to its gold mining companies, so that acquisitions overseas will be that much easier.
“It looks like China, in its desire to increase its reserve of gold bullion, is using its gold mining companies to help with the confiscation of gold bullion worldwide,” says Lombardi.
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Michael Lombardi, MBA, the lead Profit Confidential editorial contributor, has just released his most recent update of Critical Warning Number Six, a breakthrough video with Lombardi’s current predictions for the U.S. economy, stock market, U.S. dollar, euro, interest rates and inflation. To see the video, visit http://www.profitconfidential.com/critical-warning-number-six.
