According to CAT, during a physical inventory count last November, it found some discrepancies between recorded inventory and actual inventory at a subsidiary of ERA, Siwei.

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Relative to actual annual consumptive usage, there is already a greater inventory of gold than there is of any other commodity.

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Small producer associations around Bolivia are now working to create an inventory of all the companies and their equipment so they can show on paper the actual production potential of the sector.

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