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Gold/Mining/Energy : The Great Gold and Silver Mining Rush of the 21st Century

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To: Valuepro who wrote (8999)9/25/2025 10:59:52 AM
From: Valuepro   of 9450
 
Of interest...

Hong Kong reopens after Super Typhoon Ragasa, Taiwan revises death toll
channelnewsasia.com

China has a history of catastrophic flooding of biblical scales. Moreover, their new worlds largest dam has been shown to have structural problems. It's foundation pillars are moving, albeit fractionally for now*. Its failure could kill their economy (and perhaps the worlds), along with scores of millions of people, if not more.

VP

* As I understand it, the pillars are set on bedrock, not in it. Their theory was that the weight of these pillars would be enough to hold them in place, saving significant amounts of money over building the structure into bedrock. According to some, it will fail one day depending upon some combination of rare weather conditions upstream.
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