Word: wozchod
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...ounces, and the International Monetary Fund has reduced its monthly sales slightly, to 444,000 ounces. "Combine those two, and you take out almost 20% of supply," says a U.S. gold analyst.Soviets, who earned $2.6 billion the sale of 13.8 million ounces of gold through the Wozchod Bank in rich last year, have been selling at only half that rate so far this year, perhaps wait ing for higher prices. South Africa, which supplies a steady 22.5 million ounces to the market each year, stands t earn $6.2 billion at current prices...
...drop in output. One bank estimates that at an average price of only $190 an ounce in 1978, the nation's export earnings would climb $1 billion over last year, to $4.2 billion. The Soviet Union is the No. 2 gold miner, and last year its Wozchod Bank sold 401 tons at an average price of $150 an ounce, earning a tidy $2 billion. This year Wozchod expects to sell another 400 tons, at much higher profit...