100 kilograms of gold, as well as rare precious metals such as silver and platinum, were recovered from scrap of destroyed Russian military weapons and donated to the Ukrainian military budget. The Ukrainian Ministry of Defense announced on the 14th that it had recovered about 1,000 tons of scrap metal from Russian military tanks and weapons that had been destroyed and abandoned during fighting. The scrap contains 100 kilograms of gold, as well as 1,900 kilograms of silver and 25 kilograms of platinum and other rare precious metals. These were converted into cash by specialized companies, and 24.7 million hryvnia, or about 89 million yen, was paid to the Ukrainian Ministry of Defense between January and July of this year. In addition, 18 million hryvnia, or approximately 65 million yen, is scheduled to be delivered by the end of this year, which will be used for Ukraine’s state and military budgets. 2024/08/16 23:59 TV Asahi News.
>>1 >It also contains rare precious metals such as 25 kilograms of platinum. The Japanese military also used platinum to coat engine cylinders, and they forced workers to work in slums at platinum mines in Hokkaido. Apparently there are still graves there where workers who were killed in those slums were buried.
Gold bullion is about 13,000 yen per gram, right? And at that price, I guess the recycling companies have made a profit. I guess you don’t make a profit if you ask them to do it lol.
>>10 It’s extremely hard to separate precious metals from large amounts of scrap. In countries with high labor costs, it’s not worth it, so precious metals used in electronic devices are not fully recovered. That’s true for all recycling.
Even if you keep the coins in physical storage, it’s difficult to exchange them for cash; in Japan, there’s no market and the only way to exchange ounce coins is through pawn shops. It’s worth next to nothing.
Isn’t 1000 tons too little? Given the cumulative losses, it must be at least tens of thousands of tons. I guess most of it was collected by local private companies. Light metals like aluminum and titanium make more money than precious metals.
>>36 Scrap from destroyed weapons may still have explosives or chemicals inside, so it’s not easy to dismantle them. If you were to dismantle them, there would be ammunition left inside and they would explode, which would be no joke. It takes time to dismantle them by hand while checking for safety.
>>40 Well, they say that the mafia was the biggest problem when this war started. As long as they gave them a bribe they could do whatever they wanted, so anti-social organizations from all over the world made it their base.
>>40 Isn’t Russia the strongest country, with the Ministry of Defense systematically taking cuts and giving them to soldiers without bulletproof vests? Just recently, 11 trillion yen was stolen from the Ministry of Defense by a defecting woman.
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