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World's top 10 buyers & producers of gold

April 30, 2009

Turkey: 4th largest buyer

Turkey is the world's fourth largest buyer of gold. In 2007, it bought 250 tons of the precious metal.

Source: GFMS (Gold Field Mineral Services)

Image: Melted gold flows out of a smelter into a mould at a plant of gold refiner in Istanbul, Turkey. | Photograph: Osman Orsal/Reuters

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