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Wednesday, July 04, 2007
Friday, June 01, 2007
18 Karat Gold Bathtub Stolden!
In Tokyo, thieves made off with a $987,000 18-karat gold bathtub from the guest bathroom of a luxury hotel. "We have no witness information and there are no video cameras," said a police official. "We have no idea who took it."
That's a pretty ballsy move, stealing a 178-pound gold bathtub (from the 10th floor, no less). Mother lode gold
That's a pretty ballsy move, stealing a 178-pound gold bathtub (from the 10th floor, no less). Mother lode gold
Sunday, April 01, 2007
gold prices
Spot gold price up 24% in 2006!
by agold — published on February 4th, 2007
The price of gold rose by 24% in 2006, new research from Clerical Medical shows. This was the largest calendar year rise since 2002, and the third biggest annual gain in the past 20 years.
Since 2001, the price of gold has more than doubled, rising from $277 per oz to $635 per oz in 2006 – an average annual rise of 18%. View gold nuggets for sale at:
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by agold — published on February 4th, 2007
The price of gold rose by 24% in 2006, new research from Clerical Medical shows. This was the largest calendar year rise since 2002, and the third biggest annual gain in the past 20 years.
Since 2001, the price of gold has more than doubled, rising from $277 per oz to $635 per oz in 2006 – an average annual rise of 18%. View gold nuggets for sale at:
http://www.california-gold-rush-miner.us
Thursday, October 05, 2006
LA Gold Tale
A leather satchel stuffed with rubies, emeralds and diamonds, engulfed by the concrete parking lot at the Hollywood Bowl, stashed there by a lone sheepherder centuries ago, after he nicked it from agents of the Mexican emperor Maximilian.
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Friday, August 11, 2006
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Tuesday, August 08, 2006
Largest single mass of gold ever found in Colorado
BRECKENRIDGE - On July 23, 1887, two miners working a lease on the Gold Flake vein on Farncomb Hill, at the head of the renowned French Gulch placer-mining district near here, struck the mother of all lodes - a pocket of gold nuggets the likes of which had never been seen before in Colorado.
In just four hours, miners Tom Groves and Harry Lytton removed more than 243 troy ounces, or 20 pounds, of gold from this pocket, including a single nugget weighing 160 troy ounces. After breaking off two sections, leaving a piece weighing a little more than 136 troy ounces, the jubilant partners headed to town with their find, which Groves carried wrapped in a blanket and cradled in his arms like a baby - Tom’s Baby.
The name stuck, and Tom’s Baby soon became known as the state’s largest gold nugget. Technically, though, this natural wonder wasn’t a nugget at all. A nugget is defined as worn, alluvial (deposited by running water) gold mined from a placer. Tom’s Baby was, instead, a large mass of crystallized lode gold - still the largest ever known to have been mined in Colorado.
Like Edwin Carter’s wildlife specimens, Tom’s Baby also landed, in 1900, in what is now the Denver Museum of Nature & Science, where it was displayed as the centerpiece of mining magnate John F. Campion’s private collection of gold from his Breckenridge-area mines. But after several years, the specimen vanished - not only from its display but also from the museum’s inventory. Within decades, most people had forgotten both the spectacular find and the fact that Tom’s Baby had apparently been "kidnapped."
Then in 1972, two large gold pieces weighing 78 and 24 troy ounces were discovered in a Denver bank vault. When fitted together, they formed a specimen that perfectly matched a 1900 photograph of Tom’s Baby (minus 34 troy ounces that somehow became separated from the specimen and had long been considered distinct pieces in the Campion collection).
It seems that museum personnel had accidentally broken Tom’s Baby while cleaning it. The two pieces were subsequently placed in the bank vault for safekeeping - and incredibly, that’s where they stayed for the next half-century. Fortunately, the 102-troy-ounce Tom’s Baby has since been reassembled and today, Colorado’s finest specimen of lode gold is again on display at the Denver museum.
View natural gold nuggets at: http://www.california-gold-rush-miner.us
In just four hours, miners Tom Groves and Harry Lytton removed more than 243 troy ounces, or 20 pounds, of gold from this pocket, including a single nugget weighing 160 troy ounces. After breaking off two sections, leaving a piece weighing a little more than 136 troy ounces, the jubilant partners headed to town with their find, which Groves carried wrapped in a blanket and cradled in his arms like a baby - Tom’s Baby.
The name stuck, and Tom’s Baby soon became known as the state’s largest gold nugget. Technically, though, this natural wonder wasn’t a nugget at all. A nugget is defined as worn, alluvial (deposited by running water) gold mined from a placer. Tom’s Baby was, instead, a large mass of crystallized lode gold - still the largest ever known to have been mined in Colorado.
Like Edwin Carter’s wildlife specimens, Tom’s Baby also landed, in 1900, in what is now the Denver Museum of Nature & Science, where it was displayed as the centerpiece of mining magnate John F. Campion’s private collection of gold from his Breckenridge-area mines. But after several years, the specimen vanished - not only from its display but also from the museum’s inventory. Within decades, most people had forgotten both the spectacular find and the fact that Tom’s Baby had apparently been "kidnapped."
Then in 1972, two large gold pieces weighing 78 and 24 troy ounces were discovered in a Denver bank vault. When fitted together, they formed a specimen that perfectly matched a 1900 photograph of Tom’s Baby (minus 34 troy ounces that somehow became separated from the specimen and had long been considered distinct pieces in the Campion collection).
It seems that museum personnel had accidentally broken Tom’s Baby while cleaning it. The two pieces were subsequently placed in the bank vault for safekeeping - and incredibly, that’s where they stayed for the next half-century. Fortunately, the 102-troy-ounce Tom’s Baby has since been reassembled and today, Colorado’s finest specimen of lode gold is again on display at the Denver museum.
View natural gold nuggets at: http://www.california-gold-rush-miner.us
Wednesday, July 12, 2006
Gold near 5-week high, safe-haven buying supports - Yahoo! News
Gold near 5-week high, safe-haven buying supports - Yahoo! News: "Gold near 5-week high, safe-haven buying supports By Atul Prakash
Wed Jul 12, 6:15 AM ET
LONDON (Reuters) - Gold traded on Wednesday near five-week highs, supported by firm oil prices and nervousness following bomb attacks which killed more than 180 people in India's financial hub of Mumbai.
But there was no big rush to buy as the market digested the news, with focus now shifting to the currency and oil markets and U.S. data on international trade and consumer sentiment, due on Wednesday and Friday respectively.
'It was partly stimulated by the bomb attack in India, but it was also triggered by a good-looking technical picture in the market,' Alexander Zumpfe, a metals trader at Germany's Heraeus Metallhandels-Gesellschaft mbH, said about the price surge.
'Actually there is no big change in sentiment,' he said, adding that people would see price dips as buying opportunities.
Gold climbed to $643 an ounce on Tuesday, its highest since June 5, on investment buying after a series of bombs hit at least seven packed commuter trains during the rush hour in Mumbai.
Spot gold was quoted at $642.00/643.00 an ounce by 0958 GMT, against $642.10/644.10 late in New York." For the real-time N.Y. gold spot price, visit gold miner website.
Wed Jul 12, 6:15 AM ET
LONDON (Reuters) - Gold traded on Wednesday near five-week highs, supported by firm oil prices and nervousness following bomb attacks which killed more than 180 people in India's financial hub of Mumbai.
But there was no big rush to buy as the market digested the news, with focus now shifting to the currency and oil markets and U.S. data on international trade and consumer sentiment, due on Wednesday and Friday respectively.
'It was partly stimulated by the bomb attack in India, but it was also triggered by a good-looking technical picture in the market,' Alexander Zumpfe, a metals trader at Germany's Heraeus Metallhandels-Gesellschaft mbH, said about the price surge.
'Actually there is no big change in sentiment,' he said, adding that people would see price dips as buying opportunities.
Gold climbed to $643 an ounce on Tuesday, its highest since June 5, on investment buying after a series of bombs hit at least seven packed commuter trains during the rush hour in Mumbai.
Spot gold was quoted at $642.00/643.00 an ounce by 0958 GMT, against $642.10/644.10 late in New York." For the real-time N.Y. gold spot price, visit gold miner website.
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