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Thursday June 16,2005

This Ain’t Chocolate!

Category: — gotjapan @ 9:00 pm

Giant Gold Bar!Mitsubishi Materials Corp said Thursday it has made the world’s largest gold bar weighing 250 kilograms and filed for a listing in Guinness World Records.

The gold bar, valued at 400 million yen (about $3.7 million), measures 45.5 centimeters by 22.5 cm at the base and is 17 cm high, it said. The gold bar, made at its Naoshima refinery in Kagawa Prefecture, will be put on show at a tourist facility in Izu, Shizuoka Prefecture, from July 11.

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