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There was more than 10 kilos actually returned to the mine.

So this is gold that post all of the work that was done was actually returned to them as theirs that had been stolen. So so and the reason for saying that up front is if you sort of join the dots there, largest mining operation,

most secure gold room and then 10 kilos, more than 10 kilos, which is probably tip of the

iceberg, has somehow gotten out of that gold room. What does organized crime have to do with supply chains and how is forensic science

used to trace things like gold, diamonds and even food. These were the questions I had

for Western Australia-based Cameron Scadding who was a forensic and analytical

chemist and founder and managing director of a company called Source Certain International.

Over the course of his career, Cameron has worked on some fascinating and strange cases

using forensic science to help solve crime.

And he'll tell us more about one of these cases in more detail, the theft of gold

from a mining Calguli, the hub of the Western Australian Goldfields.

Cameron and his team also worked to reduce the ways criminals can

infiltrate the supply chains of products that we all rely on,

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