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Doctors Find Pound of Gold in Patient's Stomach

Smuggler in India swallowed 12 small bars, then didn't feel well

(Newser) - The patient exhibited symptoms of "acute intestinal obstruction." And it turns out they were caused by something he ate. Pretty routine stuff, until doctors in India discovered that what he had eaten was a pound of gold, reports the BBC . The 63-year-old businessman is believed to have swallowed...

Scientist: Gold Crystal &#39;Too Big to Be Real&#39; Is Real
Scientist: Gold Crystal
'Too Big to Be Real' Is Real
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Apr 12, 2014 7:00 PM CDT

Scientist: Gold Crystal 'Too Big to Be Real' Is Real

217.78-gram piece verified at Los Alamos lab

(Newser) - It's a single gold crystal that "seemed almost too perfect and too big to be real," per a press release about it. Roughly the size of a golf ball, it was found in a Venezuela river decades ago, reports KRQE , and worth an estimated $1.5 million—...

Krugman: Bitcoin Is Barbaric
 Krugman: 
 Bitcoin Is 
 Barbaric 
OPINION
Dec 23, 2013 12:48 PM CST

Krugman: Bitcoin Is Barbaric

We're 'digging our way back to the 17th century'

(Newser) - Economist John Maynard Keynes called gold the "barbarous relic"—and it has a lot in common with Bitcoin, writes Paul Krugman in the New York Times . Right now, both are being collected at high cost. In Papua New Guinea, the Porgera open-pit gold mine is a leading producer...

$1M in Gold Bars Found in Airplane Toilets

Cleaning crew in India foils smugglers' plot

(Newser) - Jet Airways workers in India made a million-dollar discovery in the most of unusual of places—two dozen gold bars stuffed into a plane's toilets, reports AFP . Smugglers apparently hid the bars in two boxes and jammed them in there, but the cleaning crew in Kolkata got to them...

Scientists Find Gold in Eucalyptus Trees

Discovery could be used by miners searching for the metal

(Newser) - Money may not grow on trees, but gold might grow in them. Such is the fascinating conclusion of a group of Australian researchers who studied eucalyptus trees in two groves in the country's west and south. The specific locations were chosen because the scientists knew there was gold in...

After Dream, Archaeologists Hunt for Gold in India

Guru believes there's more than 1K tons under palace

(Newser) - That archaeologists are exploring what was buried in the ground where a palace once stood in northern India is fairly mundane news—except that they're on the hunt for more than 1,100 tons of gold ... that a guru dreamed is located there. The dig began yesterday at the...

Found in Plane Toilet: 32 Gold Nuggets

Indian authorities bust up smuggling ring

(Newser) - Note to self: Always brave the airplane bathroom. Just in case. Because Indian intelligence busted an international gold smuggling outfit at Chennai airport on Sunday, and in the process discovered 32 gold nuggets, weighing roughly a kilogram each. The kicker? They were hidden in a plane toilet, the Times of ...

Musical Score May Reveal Where Nazi Treasure Lies
Musical Score May Reveal Where Nazi Treasure Lies
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Oct 5, 2013 8:14 AM CDT

Musical Score May Reveal Where Nazi Treasure Lies

Two Dutchmen think it's in Mittenwald, southern Germany

(Newser) - It's quite the fanciful story: Nazis buried diamonds and 100 gold bars in a Bavarian town during World War II, in a spot whose location was encoded into an annotated piece of sheet music by Adolf Hitler's private secretary. That score, to Gottfried Federlein's "March Impromptu,...

Archaeologists Uncover Jerusalem Treasure Trove

Says one archaeologist: I have never found so much gold in my life!'

(Newser) - A dig near Jerusalem's Temple Mount has paid off big time for a team of archaeologists from Hebrew University: They announced yesterday that they've uncovered a 1,400-year-old Byzantine-era treasure trove. Chief among the various gold and silver items recovered is a 4-inch solid gold medallion depicting a...

Florida Family's $300K Find: Underwater Gold

300-year-old chains, coins among haul

(Newser) - A 65-year-old Florida man has spent his life searching for treasure off the coast—and Rick Schmitt and his family have just made their biggest-ever discovery. Some 150 yards off the coast of Fort Pierce, and about 15 feet underwater, the Schmitt family found 64 feet of gold chain, five...

Apple to Offer Gold-Colored iPhone, Too
Apple to Offer Gold-Colored iPhone, Too
rumor mill
Aug 20, 2013 3:25 PM CDT

Apple to Offer Gold-Colored iPhone, Too

Multiple sites report new color option for upcoming rollout

(Newser) - The latest rumor about the new iPhone looks pretty solid to tech writers—they think Apple will indeed add a third color option of gold in September. The speculation began at iMore , and TechCrunch and AllThingsD have since confirmed. The latter's sources say the tone is "elegant,"...

Dubai Offers Flabby Citizens Gold to Lose Weight

Skeptics think the stunt won't have much of an effect

(Newser) - Dubai is, generally speaking, a fat nation. It also happens to be a very rich nation, and those two factors have combined to create an unusual weight-loss offer from the government: It will give people gold based on how many pounds they drop, reports Emirates 24/7 . The month-long initiative got...

Gold's Origins Discovered ... in Space

Star collision produces untold quantities of the shiny stuff

(Newser) - If you've got, say, a gold wedding ring, you are currently wearing a memento from the collision of two neutron stars. Or at least, that's what scientists hypothesize after witnessing one such collision in space, seemingly answering a longstanding scientific quandary, the LA Times reports. Neutron stars are...

Deutsche Bank Opens 200-Ton Gold Vault

Will bring more gold into Singapore, after country scraps tax on metals

(Newser) - Big gold-dealing Deutsche Bank has opened a 200-ton gold vault in Singapore, a move that reflects the city-state's rising status as a tax haven to rival the likes of Switzerland, Quartz reports. "Gold has traditionally been stored in London, Zurich and New York, but there is a serious...

Snake Hunter's Swamp Find Is Likely Plane Crash Gold

Man hunting pythons in Everglades instead finds pendant

(Newser) - The first part is an interesting enough tale: A guy hunting pythons in the Everglades instead finds a piece of gold jewelry that might be from one of two old plane crashes. But the best part of the story in the Miami Herald is that Mark Rubinstein says he will...

Miners Fight for Right to Vacuum Up Gold in Rivers

Suction dredge mining still banned in California

(Newser) - Vacuuming up gold from the bottom of a river sounds pretty tempting, so you can see why California gold miners are so intent on being allowed to do it. But suction dredge mining, as it's called, is quite controversial and has been banned in the state for the past...

All the World's Gold Weighs in At...

Inside the quest to tally up how much is out there

(Newser) - If you were to stuff all the world's gold in a single room, how large would it have to be? According to Warren Buffett, one that's 67 feet long, 67 feet wide, and 67 feet tall. And he's actually pretty spot on, according to an annual survey...

Behind Kyrgyzstan Unrest: Gold in the Mountains

Protests threatened as government debates mine's future

(Newser) - Kyrgyzstan has had two revolutions in eight years, and it's poised for a third amid anger over a gold mine at 12,000 feet. Nationalists say it's time for the Kumtor mine to return to local control after it was sold to a Canadian company in 2009; they...

Earthquakes Give Us Gold
 Earthquakes 
 Give Us Gold 
study says
Mar 18, 2013 6:20 AM CDT

Earthquakes Give Us Gold

It precipitates as water turns to steam: researchers

(Newser) - Earthquakes can have a silver—or rather golden—lining. Some six miles underground, water can contain trace amounts of gold and silica. When an earthquake occurs, voids along a geological fault widen suddenly, pressure plummets, and the water held inside turns to steam. Meanwhile, the gold and silica in that...

Germany to Withdraw 300 Tons of Gold From US

Country's reserves stored mostly abroad

(Newser) - Germany boasts gold reserves worth $183 billion—but two-thirds of the stuff is kept outside the country. Now, the country's central bank is set to make a heck of a withdrawal, including some 300 tons currently in a vault under Manhattan, stored by the Federal Reserve Bank of New...

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