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Perth Mint, the Glossary

The Perth Mint is Australia's official bullion mint and wholly owned by the Government of Western Australia.^[1]

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Australian gold rushes
Bullion dealers
George Temple-Poole buildings
Mints of Australia
Numismatic museums in Australia
Perth Mint Swindle
Romanesque Revival architecture in Australia

Artisanal mining

Artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) is a blanket term for a type of subsistence mining involving a miner who may or may not be officially employed by a mining company but works independently, mining minerals using their own resources, usually by hand.

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Australia

Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation

The Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC), is the national broadcaster of Australia.

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Australian Financial Review

The Australian Financial Review (AFR) is an Australian business-focused, compact daily newspaper covering the current business and economic affairs of Australia and the world.

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Australian Gold Nugget

The Australian Gold Nugget, also sometimes known as the Australian Gold Kangaroo, is a gold bullion coin minted by the Perth Mint.

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Australian gold rushes

During the Australian gold rushes, starting in 1851, significant numbers of workers moved from elsewhere in Australia and overseas to where gold had been discovered.

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Australian Platinum Koala

The Platinum Koala is an Australian platinum bullion coin minted by the Perth Mint between 1988 and 2000.

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Australian Silver Kookaburra

The Silver Kookaburra is a silver bullion coin originating from Australia, and produced at the Perth Mint starting in 1990.

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Australian Transaction Reports and Analysis Centre

Australian Transaction Reports and Analysis Centre (AUSTRAC) is an Australian government financial intelligence agency responsible for monitoring financial transactions to identify money laundering, organised crime, tax evasion, welfare fraud and terrorism financing.

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Bank of Cyprus

The Bank of Cyprus (BoC; Τράπεζα Κύπρου; Kıbrıs Bankası) is a Cypriot financial services company established in 1899 with its headquarters in Strovolos.

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A base metal is a common and inexpensive metal, as opposed to a precious metal such as gold or silver.

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Benchmarking

Benchmarking is the practice of comparing business processes and performance metrics to industry bests and best practices from other companies.

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Bill Johnston (politician)

William Joseph Johnston (born 11 August 1962) is an Australian politician.

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Bob Hawke

Robert James Lee Hawke (9 December 1929 – 16 May 2019) was an Australian politician and trade unionist who served as the 23rd prime minister of Australia from 1983 to 1991.

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British Empire

The British Empire comprised the dominions, colonies, protectorates, mandates, and other territories ruled or administered by the United Kingdom and its predecessor states.

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British Virgin Islands

The British Virgin Islands (BVI), officially the Virgin Islands, are a British Overseas Territory in the Caribbean, to the east of Puerto Rico and the US Virgin Islands and north-west of Anguilla.

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Bullion

Bullion is non-ferrous metal that has been refined to a high standard of elemental purity.

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Bullion coin

A bullion coin (also known as a specie) is a coin struck from highly refined precious metal (bullion) and kept as a store of value or an investment rather than used in day-to-day commerce.

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City

A city is a human settlement of a notable size.

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Coin

A coin is a small object, usually round and flat, used primarily as a medium of exchange or legal tender.

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Coin collecting

Coin collecting is the collecting of coins or other forms of minted legal tender.

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Coins of the Australian dollar

The coins of the Australian dollar were introduced on 14 February 1966, although they did not at that time include the one-dollar or two-dollar coins.

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Coolgardie, Western Australia

Coolgardie is a small town in Western Australia, east of the state capital, Perth. Perth Mint and Coolgardie, Western Australia are Australian gold rushes.

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Corruption and Crime Commission

The Corruption and Crime Commission is an independent anti-corruption integrity agency established on 1 January 2004 to improve the integrity of the Western Australian public sector and investigate allegations of misconduct against public officers.

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Currency

A currency is a standardization of money in any form, in use or circulation as a medium of exchange, for example banknotes and coins.

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Cyprus

Cyprus, officially the Republic of Cyprus, is an island country in the eastern Mediterranean Sea.

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Digital asset

A digital asset is anything that exists only in digital form and comes with a distinct usage right or distinct permission for use.

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East Perth, Western Australia

East Perth is an inner suburb of Perth, Western Australia, located next to the Perth central business district.

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Federation of Australia

The Federation of Australia was the process by which the six separate British self-governing colonies of Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria, Tasmania, South Australia (which also governed what is now the Northern Territory), and Western Australia agreed to unite and form the Commonwealth of Australia, establishing a system of federalism in Australia.

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Fiscal year

A fiscal year (also known as a financial year, or sometimes budget year) is used in government accounting, which varies between countries, and for budget purposes.

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George Temple-Poole

George Thomas Temple-Poole (born George Thomas Temple, 29 May 1856 – 27 February 1934) was a British architect and public servant, primarily known for his work in Western Australia from 1885.

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Gold as an investment

Of all the precious metals, gold is the most popular as an investment.

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Gold Corporation

Gold Corporation is an Australian company owned by the Government of Western Australia, established by the Gold Corporation Act 1987, with a mandate to operate the Perth Mint, market Australian gold, and other related activities.

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Gold Fields

Gold Fields Limited (formerly The Gold Fields of South Africa) is one of the world's largest gold mining firms.

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Gold standard

A gold standard is a monetary system in which the standard economic unit of account is based on a fixed quantity of gold.

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Government of Western Australia

The Government of Western Australia is the Australian state democratic administrative authority of Western Australia.

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Half sovereign

The half sovereign is a British gold coin denominated at one-half of a pound sterling.

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Hay Street, Perth

Hay Street is a major road through the central business district of Perth, Western Australia and adjacent suburbs.

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Hints to Prospectors and Owners of Treatment Plants

Hints to Prospectors and Owners of Treatment Plants was a booklet published and distributed to gold prospectors in Australia, although its original focus was Western Australia in the 1930s.

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History of Western Australia

The human history of Western Australia commenced "over 50,000 years ago and possibly as much as 70,000 years ago" with the arrival of Aboriginal Australians on the northwest coast.

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HSBC

HSBC Holdings plc (滙豐; acronym from its founding member The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation) is a British universal bank and financial services group headquartered in London, England, with historical and business links to East Asia and a multinational footprint.

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Inflation hedge

An inflation hedge is an investment intended to protect the investor against—hedge—a decrease in the purchasing power of money—inflation.

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John Forrest

Sir John Forrest (22 August 1847 – 2 SeptemberSome sources give the date as 3 September 1918 1918) was an Australian explorer and politician.

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Joint Chiefs of Global Tax Enforcement

The Joint Chiefs of Global Tax Enforcement (J5) is a global joint operational group, formed in mid-2018 to combat transnational tax crime.

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JPMorgan Chase

JPMorgan Chase & Co. (stylized as JPMorganChase) is an American multinational finance company headquartered in New York City and incorporated in Delaware.

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Kalgoorlie

Kalgoorlie is a city in the Goldfields–Esperance region of Western Australia, located east-northeast of Perth at the end of the Great Eastern Highway. Perth Mint and Kalgoorlie are Australian gold rushes.

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Legal tender

Legal tender is a form of money that courts of law are required to recognize as satisfactory payment for any monetary debt.

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Limestone

Limestone (calcium carbonate) is a type of carbonate sedimentary rock which is the main source of the material lime.

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London Bullion Market Association

The London Bullion Market Association (now known simply as LBMA), established in 1987, is the international trade association representing the global Over The Counter (OTC) bullion market, and defines itself as "the global authority on precious metals".

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Manufacturing

Manufacturing is the creation or production of goods with the help of equipment, labor, machines, tools, and chemical or biological processing or formulation.

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Melbourne Mint

The Melbourne Mint, located on the corner of William and La Trobe Streets in Melbourne, Australia, was first established as a branch of the British Royal Mint, opening in 12 June 1872. Perth Mint and Melbourne Mint are mints (currency) and mints of Australia.

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Mint (facility)

A mint is an industrial facility which manufactures coins that can be used as currency. Perth Mint and mint (facility) are mints (currency).

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Money laundering

Money laundering is the process of illegally concealing the origin of money, obtained from illicit activities such as drug trafficking, corruption, embezzlement or gambling, by converting it into a legitimate source.

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Murchison (Western Australia)

The Murchison is a loosely defined area of Western Australia located within the interior of the Mid West region.

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Northern Star Resources

Northern Star Resources is an Australian gold mining company with operations in Western Australia, Northern Territory and Alaska.

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Numismatics

Numismatics is the study or collection of currency, including coins, tokens, paper money, medals and related objects.

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Obverse and reverse

The obverse and reverse are the two flat faces of coins and some other two-sided objects, including paper money, flags, seals, medals, drawings, old master prints and other works of art, and printed fabrics.

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Offshore bank

An offshore bank is a bank that is operated and regulated under international banking license (often called offshore license), which usually prohibits the bank from establishing any business activities in the jurisdiction of establishment.

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Panama Papers

The Panama Papers (Papeles de Panamá) are 11.5 million leaked documents (or 2.6 terabytes of data) that were published beginning on April 3, 2016.

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Papua New Guinea

Papua New Guinea, officially the Independent State of Papua New Guinea, is a country in Oceania that comprises the eastern half of the island of New Guinea and its offshore islands in Melanesia (a region of the southwestern Pacific Ocean north of Australia).

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Perth Mint Swindle

The Perth Mint Swindle is the popular name for the robbery of 49 gold bars weighing from the Perth Mint in Western Australia on 22 June 1982.

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Proof coinage

Proof coinage refers to special early samples of a coin issue, historically made for checking the dies (as in demonstrating that something is true) and for archival purposes.

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Prospecting

Prospecting is the first stage of the geological analysis (followed by exploration) of a territory.

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In metallurgy, refining consists of purifying an impure metal.

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Royal Australian Mint

The Royal Australian Mint is the national mint of Australia, and the primary production facility for the country’s circulating coins. Perth Mint and Royal Australian Mint are mints (currency), mints of Australia and Numismatic museums in Australia.

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Royal Canadian Mint

The Royal Canadian Mint (Monnaie royale canadienne) is the mint of Canada and a Crown corporation, operating under the Royal Canadian Mint Act. Perth Mint and royal Canadian Mint are bullion dealers and mints (currency).

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Royal Mint

The Royal Mint is the United Kingdom's official maker of British coins. Perth Mint and Royal Mint are bullion dealers and mints (currency).

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Silver as an investment

Silver may be used as an investment like other precious metals.

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Sovereign (British coin)

The sovereign is a British gold coin with a nominal value of one pound sterling (£1) and contains 0.2354 troy oz of pure gold.

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St Barbara (company)

St Barbara Limited is an Australian-based, Australian Securities Exchange-listed (ASX) gold producer and explorer.

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Statutory body

A statutory body or statutory authority is a body set up by law (statute) that is authorised to implement certain legislation on behalf of the relevant country or state, sometimes by being empowered or delegated to set rules (for example regulations or statutory instruments) in their field.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perth_Mint

Also known as Heart of Gold Discovery Trail.

, Melbourne Mint, Mint (facility), Money laundering, Murchison (Western Australia), Northern Star Resources, Numismatics, Obverse and reverse, Offshore bank, Panama Papers, Papua New Guinea, Perth Mint Swindle, Proof coinage, Prospecting, Refining (metallurgy), Royal Australian Mint, Royal Canadian Mint, Royal Mint, Silver as an investment, Sovereign (British coin), St Barbara (company), Statutory body, Sydney Mint, United Kingdom, United States Bullion Depository, United States Department of State, Western Australia, World War II.

Perth Mint, the Glossary

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See also

Australian gold rushes

Bullion dealers

George Temple-Poole buildings

Mints of Australia

Numismatic museums in Australia

Perth Mint Swindle

Romanesque Revival architecture in Australia

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