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ASPEN — Charles Israel has turned those pesky foreign coins into more than $20,000 for UNICEF’s Change for Good program.

Commodity Online has published a report on the gold mining situation in China. According to the website, China is set to become the largest gold producing country in the world, eventually pushing South Africa into second place.

Minera Yanacocha SRL has announced its gold mill has started gold production. Between April and June this year the mine in Peru produced 77,416 ounces of gold.

China National Gold Group Corporation (CNGGC) said on Monday it had found a new vein with an estimated 15 tonnes of gold at one of its mines. The Na Neng gold mine in the northwest Guangxi Province was previously thought to have a proven reserve of 5 tonnes, an unnamed official with the country's leading gold producer, manufacturer and trader told Xinhua.

Officials unveiled the prototype of the first U.S. coin with readable Braille characters last week — a silver dollar commemorating the 200th anniversary of the birth of Louis Braille, the creator of the alphabet for the blind.