El Salvador president proposes bill to overturn metals mining ban
In 2017, El Salvador became the first country in the world to ban forms of metals mining.
Rumour has it that some major U.S. asset managers prefer to hold gold outside the country for fear of confiscation in an echo of Franklin D. Roosevelt’s 1933 decree.
While analysts interviewed by MINING.com think such a move is very unlikely, historical precedence does exist.
MINING.com has created this infographic to give you some background on this not so uncommon practice.
![A history of gold confiscation [INFOGRAPHIC]](https://mining.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/history-of-gold-confiscation.jpg "A history of gold confiscation [INFOGRAPHIC]")
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Goldfinger McSilver
Has this ever happened in Canada?