![]() Heraeus claimed to have received a 500-gram bar from an unnamed bank that proved to be filled with tungsten. The same thing reportedly happened in Great Britain earlier this year, and finance blog reported that in 2010 German refiner W.C. Ibrahim Fadl, a chemical engineer who owns a business near 47th Street and Fifth Avenue, bought four 10-ounce gold bars and decided to check them out further since he heard counterfeits were making the rounds, reports.įadl, who paid $100,000 for the merchandise, drilled into several of the bars and found gray tungsten, which has nearly the same density as gold, making it difficult to detect. ![]() Fool’s gold: Counterfeit bars turn up in New York Published Ī jeweler in Manhattan’s Diamond District learned the hard way that all that glitters is not gold. ![]()
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