
Venezuela’s state-owned mining company Minerven on Monday signed a multimillion-dollar contract to sell 650 to 1,000 kilograms of Gold Dore bars to commodities trader Trafigura for US markets, Axios reported.
The contract required 98% final gold content, one of the sources said. Trafigura was set to shepherd the gold to US refineries under a separate arrangement with the US govt, the source said.