To meet the needs of the public, banks turn to their regional
Federal Reserve bank for coins and currency when their
supplies are low
Federal Reserve then releases them as required by the
commercial banking system
Labour: Transporters - Shipped to Federal Reserve Banks and Branches
Numismatic Coin
Labour: Marketing Team
Promotion
Digital Advertising
PR
Collectors Expo
TV Advertisments
Labour: Finance Team
Tresurey's General Fund
Budgets
Cleaning and Inspection
Manual presses are used to strike blanks made of precious metals (gold, silver, platinum) to create
collector or numismatic coins. Most proof coins are struck twice or even three times. Tool steel dies,
placed inside each press, are used to imprint the desired design on the coin's surface.
Dyes go above and below the coin in the coin press
Labour: Designers etch design on Disk
Cleaning and Inspection
Blank Coins get Rimmed
Sheet of Metal enters a blanking Press where blank coins are created
Metal goes through rolling process to make sure that the thickness is right
Thick sheets of metal are cut to make the appropriate thickness
Mix is poured into rectangular molds
Chlorine Gas is added to the Molten Mix to form a slag of molten chloride
Metals are Combined inorder to form an alloy
Gold and Silver Bars are melted in the furnace
Design is approved
The Mint commissions artists to submit designs. Background information, design concepts, creative
and technical guidelines, coin specifications, and previous examples are provided to them.
Blueprints
Design Team
Custom Coin
Marketing Information Team
Surveys to find out what design the
public would like on a collectors coin
Survey Collectors / Target Audience
Compile Data and find the most liked design
Identify Trends in Society
Board of Directors
Meetings
Approval by Representatives from
the Bank of Canada and the Board of
Directors from the Royal Canadian
Mint
Government
Meetings
Representatives fromthe Bank of Canada
Meetings
Labour: Factory Workers put the metals into a furnace but seperate them into to two categories: Gold, and other metal alloys (Silver is Solvent)
Capital: Investers can pay for their design to appear on a coin
Capital: Sponsers can pay money for the development of a coin
Ideas for new coin designs come from contests, research
and the general public. Recommendations are sent to the
Government of Canada, which makes the final decision for
all coin designs.
Labour: Artist
Standard Canadian Coin
Cleaning and Inspection
Coins are Pressed Automatically (120 coins per minute)
Dyes go above and below the coin in the coin press
Dye
Labour: Designers etch design on Disk
Disk
Raw Material: Epoxy
Labour: Factory Worker
Natural Resource: Epoxy Resins
Cleaning and Inspection
Blank Coins get Rimmed
Sheet of Metal enters a blanking Press where blank coins are created
Metal goes through rolling process to make sure that the thickness is right
Thick sheets of metal are cut to make the appropriate thickness
Mix is poured into rectangular molds
Chlorine Gas is added to the Molten Mix to form a slag of molten chloride
Metals are Combined inorder to form an alloy
Other Metal Bars account for the remaining percentantage (Silver is Solvent)
Labour: Factory Workers put the metals into a furnace but seperate them into to two categories:
Gold, and other metal alloys (Silver is Solvent)
Gold bars in quantities ranging from 5% to 95% are melted in a furnace.
Labour: Factory Workers put the metals into a furnace but seperate them into to two categories:
Gold, and other metal alloys (Silver is Solvent)
Labour: Transporters ship it to the Royal Canadian Mint
Raw Material: Gold Bar
Labour: Smelters
Labour: Transporters
ship it to a Smelting
Corporation
Labour: Third
Party Mining
Corporation
Natural Resource: Gold Ore
Capital: Government Funding
Capital: Government Funding
Capital: Government Funding
Raw Material: Silver Bar
Labour: Smelters
Labour:
Transporters
ship it to a
Smelting
Corporation
Labour: Third
Party Mining
Corporation
Natural Resource: Silver Ore
Raw Material: Zinc Bar
Labour: Smelters
Labour: Transporters
ship it to a Smelting
Corporation
Labour: Third Party
Mining Corporation
Natural Resource: Zinc Ore
Raw Material: Steel Bar
Labour: Smelters
Labour: Transporters
ship it to a Smelting
Corporation
Labour:
Third Party
Mining
Corporation
Natural Resource: Steel Ore
Raw Material: Other Metal Bars
Labour: Smelters
Labour:
Transporters ship
it to a Smelting
Corporation
Labour: Third
Party Mining
Corporation
Natural Resource: Other Metal Ores
Capital: Government Funding
Capital: Factory
Capital: Money spent is from the Tresurey's General Fund