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 No explanation was given as to how the counterfeiters obtained the unpublished bar serial numbers, nor the likely benefit of counterfeiting stolen property in this way.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
New Gold previous year and sold 369,077 ounces at a total cash cost 8% lower (down to $428/oz). Mesquite produced 44% of the gold (169,023 ounces), Cerro San Pedro 31.0% (118,708 ounces) with the rest coming from Peak Mines (95,180 ounces); For 2011 nearly all of the new production is expected to come from Cerro San Pedro. Total production could surpass 400,000 ounces by 2012. 2016 - New Gold produced 381,663 ounces of gold and 102 million pounds of copper. Year-end cash and cash equivalents of $186 million. Development of Rainy River remained on track to achieve initial production by September 2017.