Only official government gold purchases are visible to the goyim. In the shadows, discreet third party contracting companies and government-linked major family trusts are adding to the national gold piles held in covert vaults. Alongside this, across the globe, US dollar holdings and US dollar-denominated debt instruments are being traded in for gold in fast-increasing quantities.

China, Russia and Venezuela have boosted their domestic production of gold, much of which is being systematically purchased by their central banks. China is now the world's largest gold producer and its official gold reserves are increasing by ten percent a year.

In the Middle East, the Gulf Cooperation Council states (Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and UAE), headquartered in Riyadh, are scrambling to build up their gold reserves and reduce their Forex holdings in US dollars. On Tuesday 15th December 2009, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain and Qatar announced the creation of a joint Monetary Council. This was a major step towards establishing a new gold-backed regional currency.

The European Central Bank already holds twenty five percent of its reserves in the form of deliverable (physical) gold.

What is not clear is how much physical gold is being held in vaults beyond the control or knowledge of national governments. Included among the private gold owners are the gold mining and exploration companies themselves. There are hundreds of these all over the world. One of the rising stars appears to be Vista. In the five months to January 2011, Vista Gold Corporation (Denver, Colorado, USA) doubled the gold held in reserve at its Australian Mount Todd operation. A chart comparing the performance of Vista Gold with the SPDR Gold Trust can be viewed here. How many other invisible Vistas are out there?

In times of systemic economic uncertainty, throwing valuable national resources into paper assets (stocks, bonds, fiat paper derivatives) is neither attractive nor prudent. Compared with shifting fiat fumes, solid gold represents sovereign security.

But what is the true extent of Planet Earth's Dark Pool Auridity (DPA)? This kind of enquiry makes conventional precious metals capitalists nervous. Where exactly is this rumoured ocean of gold which is going to back the new global currencies? Whose hand controls the faucet?

And there are related issues which tremble heretically at the intersection of high finance and esoteric spirituality. Where did all this secret gold come from? And why has it not been stolen?

A range of answers is being quietly articulated. Some of the Dark Pool Gold came from a very long time ago. Some of the Dark Pool Gold came from a very long way away. Some of the Dark Pool Gold, having been stolen from the planet in Sumerian and Akkadian times (and earlier), is being returned because the thieves have changed sides. And some of the Dark Pool Gold is being protected by technologies unknown to modern patent lawyers. This story may be one of the richest to be disclosed in 2011 and 2012. And why shouldn't it be? At the inception of golden ages, golden stories are told.

Ongoing commentary on exoteric gold price dynamics here (07.01.10), here (06.01.11) and here (06.01.11).

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Jan. 8, 2011