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A security guard places several one-kilo gold bars inside a secured vault in Dubai April 20, 2006. Spot gold surged to a 25 year high of $645.75 on Thursday in a rally
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Jeffrey Rhodes, head of resource banking operations for South Africa's Standard Bank in the Middle East and North Africa, sits near several one-kilo gold bars inside a secured vault in Dubai April
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