Brink's-Mat robbery bullion bars bearing the refiner's mark and serial numbers of bars stolen in the Brink's-Mat robbery. According to the police spokesman, the bars were gold-coated tungsten counterfeits, and therefore could not be Johnson Matthey's stolen gold bars. He said that the arrested men planned to fraudulently claim they were from the Heathrow robbery. No explanation was given as to how the counterfeiters obtained the unpublished bar serial numbers, nor the likely benefit of counterfeiting stolen property in this way. A person named Gordon Parry laundered large amounts of cash from the robbery after the disposal of the gold according to
Seabridge Gold time reported an historical resource of 5.9 million ounces of gold. Seabridge began exploring KSM in 2006. After five years of drilling, Seabridge reported a new NI 43-101 compliant resource estimate in February 2012 which estimated measured and indicated resources totalling 49.0 million ounces of gold, 12.7 billion pounds of copper, 261 million ounces of silver and 304 million pounds of molybdenum in 2.8 billion tonnes grading 0.55 gpt gold and 0.21% copper. An updated Preliminary Feasibility Study released on May 14, 2012 reported reserves of 38.2 million ounces of gold, 9.9 billion pounds of copper, 191 million ounces of