If you disagree with Van Eeden's arguments about gold production or usage being trivial vs. average clearing, netted or not, why don't you mail van Eenden?
What are you looking for? Pulling my leg? Start an argument?
It is not the first time that you read a PR somewhere and ask my opinion.
There are hundred PR about the metals everyday, some I search, some which are not in my planning to read. I have to do it with only 24 hours per day.
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Louis V. Lambrecht
Whenever you find that you are on the side of the majority, it is time to reform. (Mark Twain)