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Show ' ' Twelve Tons of Gold. PHILADELPHIA, May 10. Twelve tons of virgin gold were yesterday reduced re-duced to a molten state at the United . States mint here. At the same time the coinage department began be-gan the work of converting the mass into golden eagles. Tomorrow twelve more tons will be melted and within the next few days about $12,000,000 will be coined. Most of the. gold came from New Tork in bullion. The melting of twelve ton in one day is said to break all records for mint smelting. |