This dataset contains privately and publicly owned bullion repositories. The privately owned repositories are included because they are members of the Industry Council for Tangible Assets (ICTA) as listed by the ICTA website and therefore deal with gold bullion or are the administrative headquarters of the bullion repository. Public locations are included based on the value (in US dollars) of the bullion stored, according to the United States Department of Treasury. Federal Reserve entities other than the one included in this database are excluded because the monetary amount of gold bullion, if any, stored at each location could not be determined, and per the United States Department of Treasury, the collective amount of the bullion stored among the remaining 11 Federal Reserve Banks and among the 25 Federal Reserve Branches (if any) is valued at less than one million US dollars. There are entities within this dataset that are also included in the HSIP Gold Federal Reserve layer or the HSIP Gold US Mint and Bureau of Engraving layer as the entities are considered to be a bullion repository as well as a Federal Reserve or a US Mint. The currentness of this dataset is indicated by the [CONTDATE] attribute. The oldest record dates from 07/19/2006 and the newest record dates from 07/24/2006. Due to the sensitive nature of these entities, TGS did not make contact with most of the entities within the database. For those entities not contacted by TGS, their existence and locations were determined based upon publicly available information and research conducted between 6/1/2006 and 7/31/2006.
