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China Opens Largest Private Gold Vault With Capacity For $82 Billion Worth Of Precious Metal
It was not enough for China to buy JPM's landmark former downtown Manhattan headquarters, once the stomping grounds of David Rockefeller and the current location of the firm's massive, and arguably largest in the world, gold vault (which, as Zero Hedge first demonstrated, is located just next to gold vault of none other than the NY Fed). It seems that for the nation that has unleashed the world's biggest ever buying spree of physical gold -oblivious what the price of paper gold does on a daily basis - having purchased over 2000 tons of gold in the past two years as we showed recently...
... now the question is just where to store it.
Not surprisingly, in the Chinese bastion of capitalism, where there is demand, there will be supply. And in this case, the supply of gold storage is to be found in the Shanghai Free Trade Zone, where the physical gold ends up in custodial limbo as it is not considered "imported" by China. In fact, the gold is theoretically in no man's land and as such can be reexported out of China, or sent deeper into the mainland, to China's banks or private buyers, on a whim. Of course, all that is on paper. If and when the Communist Party says "enough" all the gold in the FTZ would be "reappropriated."
Bloomberg reports, that a gold vault that can store 2,000 metric tons, double China’s projected consumption this year, opened in Shanghai this month as owner Malca-Amit Global Ltd. seeks to benefit from rising demand in Asia’s largest economy.
The facility is the biggest for the Hong Kong-based company, and it can also store diamonds, jewelry and art, Joshua Rotbart, precious metals general manager, said in an interview. The site could hold bullion worth about $82.5 billion at today’s price, Bloomberg calculations show. China’s total demand may reach 1,000 tons in 2013, the World Gold Council forecasts.
Someone should tell China that just because the price of gold is sliding, it should stop buying the inflation-protecting metal. Then again, perhaps China knows all about the gold price and is reacting accordingly:
Consumption in China may increase 29 percent to a record this year, overtaking India as biggest user as lower prices and higher incomes spur demand, according to the WGC. The investment in Shanghai’s new free-trade zone reflects a shift in world demand away from the U.S. and Europe toward Asia. Demand for gold jewelry, bars and coins in Greater China, India, Indonesia and Vietnam is now about 60 percent of the global total, up from 35 percent in 2004, according to HSBC Holdings Plc.
“Such a facility is a massive vote of confidence for the Chinese gold market,” said Philip Klapwijk, managing director of Hong Kong-based Precious Metals Insights Ltd. “The trend for demand has been very strongly positive,” said Klapwijk, who’s monitored precious metals since 1988.
This is just the beginning of the great physical gold warehousing:
“There’s going to be more gold coming to China,” Rotbart said on Nov. 5. “This place can be used as a trade hub basically, so foreign banks can trade with domestic banks within this facility, saving costs and time.”
Bullion has been flowing into mainland China even as local output increased. Net imports from Hong Kong more than doubled to 826 tons in the first nine months of the year, according to Bloomberg calculations based on government figures. Local output rose 8.2 percent to 270.2 tons from January to August.
Shanghai is home to the country’s biggest physical gold exchange, founded by the People’s Bank of China. Gold volume on the Shanghai Gold Exchange rose to a five-month high of 22,703 kilograms on Oct. 8.
So how is it possible that with all the massive Chinese demand, gold is sliding? Simple: levered paper positions via ETFs are being unwound, and the resulting gold ends up in China as physical.
“There’s been a lot of gold being sold out of ETFs, all of that is outside of China,” Victor Thianpiriya, a Singapore-based analyst at Australia & New Zealand Banking Group Ltd., said by phone today. “A lot of that has found its way to China via Hong Kong, attracted by demand for bullion bars.”
Which means that as levered paper trades are unwound, the underlying physical finds its way in China. For now, since the developed market has convinced itself there is no need for truly safe collateral, the premium on, and demand for, paper gold has tumbled, as has the associated rehypothecation velocity on the underlying. However, when demand for gold collateral surges once more, due to any of the types of events witnessed in 2010, 2011, or 2012, or inflation in China once again surges like it did in 2011, the story will change very quickly. Only this time, it will be China holding the apex of the "High quality collateral" pyramid.
And should the same level of demand for gold return as was seen in any of the prior years, then one will have to pay substantially more in fiat for the privilege of holding a truly safe asset. Especially since that actual physical asset will ultimately be located behind a massive safe door some 80 meters below the ground in Shanghai, which in turn will allow China to demand whatever fiat price it wishes for those once again scrambling into the safety of the yellow metal.
More on the Shanghai gold vault in the clip below:
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US Dollar And Gold This Week - Taper Talk And Who's Gonna Make The Walk
We have quite an interesting print in US Dollar today - with all Taper assured talk from both side of the FED's mouth, US Dollar has ended with a big hesitation question mark. We do not know what to take here with all ongoing market manipulation, but would like to point it out and will be watching this week action in USD very closely.http://sufiy.blogspot.co.uk/2013/11/us-dollar-and-gold-this-week-taper-t...
They couldn't even taper a few percent without the markets going into full panic mode. They will jawbone the idea to death, and it will always be right around the corner like prosperity. If there is a taper which I seriously doubt, it will be very small and very short-lived, followed by a ramp up beyond the insane money printing already taking place.
Watch them laugh at our silly little dip in price and work a little harder towards filling that vault tonight:
Live Spot Gold Chart:
http://www.pmbull.com/gold-price/
If they can't fill it with gold, they will fill it with Bitcoin
Sure seems like they are ... at a rate of .055 bitcoins per ounce of silver / 3.5 bitcoins per ounce of gold.
Gold to fund Asian Empire
To understand exactly what’s happening in the Gold Space we must look at the really big picture; STEP. BACK!
http://twoshortplanksunplugged.blogspot.com.au/2013/11/gold-to-fund-asian-empire.html
ant people (=muppets) do not need empire, ptb do...
so, opening gold vault in FTZ, installing NSC headed by Xi (just announced), what else will this second head of the chimera not looking like UsSA (Empire?)
wtf.. a lousy 2K metric tonnes??
i explained to the fambly that 10 tonnes was about the size of the refrigerator.. although the floor joists might have little problem with that load and I might end up with a little metal in my lap down here in the basement.
ok.. bring it.
Okay, call me nuts, but am I the only person who has a problem trusting communists, (the absolute and total "appropriators if there ever were any), with my phyzz? Yeah, yeah, they were only commies for what?... 75 years and have been doing business for 3000, but I just don't get a big warm fuzzy trusting these pricks with my hard-earned, if you know what I mean. Hell, I don't get a warm fuzzy from trusting anybody with my stacks. Why have a counter-party when I don't need or want the exposure? The point is now moot though, as once again I have discovered the hard way that booze, PMs and boating just don't go well together...
Anyone who would trust the ChiCom govt...
To hold their gold & silver for them needs their head examined!
Right now I trust them and the Russians MORE than the US government and the Western banking system. Which is pretty goddamned sad IMO.
Does anyone have the physical address? I want to ship all my AG and AU over there for safekeeping.
Michael Phelps will swim it over there just for excerise.
Congrates on not losing yours in a boating accident.
Malca-Amit (Shanghai) Trading Company Ltd.
Room 906A, 9/F, Tower B, The China Diamond Exchange Centre,
1701 Shiji Avenue, Pudong, Shanghai, China
P.C. 200122
Tel: + 86 21 6109 0668
Fax: + 86 21 6165 2915
"I want to ship all my AG and AU over there for safekeeping."
Just wait for them to open the vault in their new former-JPM building. That way you can swing by and polish it whenever you want.
"Capacity For $82 Billion Worth Of Precious Metal"
note to self:
metal is measured in ounces
not fiats
Dem Go Long
...at today's price
I like it better measured in LBS.
Over.
The Central Bank of DoChenRollingBearing is jealous!
MOAHT .... Mother of all honey traps.
Show me the tungstun!
Check mate.
They should reserve a small section in that vault for Bitcoin USB Thumb Drives...
For sure, since we all know bitcoin is safe and secure.......never any worries with bitcon!
Wait, what's this? Hmmmm, check this link out. I CAN'T fathom how on earth this could happen!
"A Chinese bitcoin trading platform suddenly shut down and up to $5 million worth of bitcoin disappeared with it, a reminder of the great risk associated with the digital currency."
http://rt.com/business/banshee-bitcoin-vanish-china-601/
OMG! How is this possible? People lost their assets after giving them to a swindler! Hurry, buy gold, at least it has a magical immunity to fraud!
So let me get this straight.
if you were a scam artist, you could set up a bogus bit-coin exchange and just wait till everyone has their BTC there. Then simply dissapear with all the electronic loot???
This thing is dangerous!
We need to regulate it, for everyone's safety.
So just one month of QE could fill it, yawn.
It does give you a perspective for the size of the black hole the Fed is creating.
one month prior to the price reset
"So how is it possible that with all the massive Chinese demand, gold is sliding? Simple: levered paper positions via ETFs are being unwound, and the resulting gold ends up in China as physical."
Just as many goldbugs stated here for the last 3 plus years that GLD (and other ETF"s) were bankster frauds designed to suppress the price of gold, not support it.
Conspiracy FACT.
So many others have so much gold that if they were to want dollars for the gold we would not have enough dollars to pay them and our economy would suffer further as a result. It could cause the banks to need to be recapitized which would come at the expense of the shrinking middle class, who now are more akin to the lower classes but already just a health care hiccup away from bankruptcy. Bankers stress levels will be tested and expensive cures drummed up with little concern for costs, cause they make big profits on the recapitalization process which was first tested in 08.
So when does ZH move to HK or Shanghai?
China should send the US FED their thanks for giving them the sales price.
The deal to NOT have them dump their US paper is safe, for the time being.....
honor among thieves? i think not. no deal.
jesus christ, we are so fuckin' dumb. so fuckin' dumb.
The joke is on them because you can't eat gold, lolololololololol.........
You think that is bad, wait until they find out the greatest banker in the world considers it nothing more than an out-dated tradition. They are going to feel so dumb!
!Repository 4 das stupids?
!Get some!
China.
You and the Yuan will not be taken seriously until "the Vault" is in Beijing and under direct control of the CCP/MOF and surrounded by the PLA.
Still running your country like a bunch of farmers.
A thousand ghost cities, but not an open and notorious challenge to the dollar?
chabuduo tongzhi.
'The policy of letting a hundred Black Swans fly ...'
Even this yeren can call this kettle black.
Sounds like they are trying to build a safe and secure hiding place...I bet they don´t have to report to the IRS anything...GS will fill it with all of their stolen...I mean shorted gold soon...hidden from view of the USA and the 99%
They can buy gold until there's no more left and it doesn't make a shit bit of difference as long as they allow Comex and LBMA to set the price. Imagine if you were Chinese and saw this corrupt bullshit every day. You gotta be asking - like we are, "why do these fucktards let the US determine the price of gold and silver?
Hate to say it but Bitcoin looks better every day. I'm sick of these criminals.
BitCoins for Tungsten (exploration) "Miner to Pay in Bitcoins for Work at Tungsten Project" http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-11-12/miner-to-pay-in-bitcoins-for-wo...
Irony perhaps... tungsten.
goldbugs
The site could hold bullion worth about $82.5 billion at today’s price, Bloomberg calculations show.
According to my calculations: 2000 metric tons X 1000 kg/ton X 30 oz/kg (approx) = 60 million oz
At $1300/oz, that would be around $800 billion.
Try again:
2000*1000/32.15*1300
You forgot to carry the 5 before taking the integral.
https://www.google.ca/#q=2000+metric+tons+in+troy+ounces
2000 metric tons = 64301493.1 troy ounces @ $1300 / ozt : $83,591,941,030 approximations per unit on millions just doesn't cut it. 1 kilogram = 32.1507466 troy ounces@250 ton/vault, China is gonna need 20 of these vaults just to hold their 5000 ton perceived hoard....possibly the other 19 will be in Beijing, with some probably already built!!!
It is said that possession is 9 tenths of the law, but if the government has complete control then do you really have possession? Any gold in any bank vault is under government control.
PAGING Simon Black, paging Simon Black...
Why can't they just bury it in the back yard like normal people?!
So china is pretty much following the super power bankster process. IMO, This phase is gathering gold to become a viable international currency on the way to being included in the resulting basket of currencies that will make up the SDRs.
But will China act any different than other world central banks? Sure they are gathering gold now, but once they have enough to be respected, will they act differently?
What data do we have that indicates that China will be any more non evil central banksters than anyone else?
Real question.
Who would be dumb enough to put gold in China for safekeeping?
Who would be dumb enough to put gold in China for safekeeping?
Who would be dumb enough to put gold in New York for safekeeping?
Who would be dumb enough to put gold in London for safekeeping?