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Man Keeps a Rock For Years Hoping It's Gold. It Turns Out to Be Far More Valuable.
"Meteorites provide the cheapest form of space exploration. They transport us back in time, providing clues to the age, ...
Lucky man who hoarded ‘gold’ for years shocked to discover it’s something far rarer
Incredibly dense for its size at almost 40 pounds, finder Dave Hole of Australia was convinced it must have contained a ...
Interesting Engineering on MSN1d
1,000 tons of gold deposit that’s largest in world discovered in China: Report
Chinese state media reported the discovery of a gold ore deposit in central Hunan, estimated to hold over 1,000 tonnes of ...
The Standoff Deep Inside an Abandoned South African Gold Mine
The government is trying to starve more than 1,000 informal prospectors out of a shaft of the Buffelsfontein mine, which ...
PBS7y
Extracting Gold from Rock
The rock needed to be powdered so we could get to all the gold inside it. This was a time-consuming job because we needed a very fine powder — much finer than even sand. (We wore out several ...