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 No explanation was given as to how the counterfeiters obtained the unpublished bar serial numbers, nor the likely benefit of counterfeiting stolen property in this way.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 $1.6 billion 2008 merger between Metallica Resources, Peak Gold Ltd. and New Gold Inc. Peak Gold's CEO Bob Gallagher was the first CEO of the new company. It acquired Western Goldfields in March 2009 for Cdn $285 million. 2011- New Gold output was 387,155 ounces at an average cash cost of $448 an ounce. That's 4,300 ounces more than the previous year. Silver production was 1.983 million ounces and copper 12.7 billion pounds, down 9.0% and 17.0% respectively. New Gold also sells gold, 391,890 ounces up 6.2%. 2010 - New Gold produced 382,911 ounces of gold 26.9% more than the