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To: marek_wojna who wrote (65050)	3/7/2001 11:27:31 AM
From: long-gone	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 116764

<<People are starting now to act as the children who received lately hundreds of new toys>> there are also many more people - a sucker born every minute <<Would anybody throw away something made out of the gold or silver? >> Far more than anyone wishes to admit.

To: marek_wojna who wrote (65050)	3/7/2001 3:41:30 PM
From: IngotWeTrust	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 116764

Hi, Merek! Allow me to introduce myself. I'm a gold recycler, as well as a placer gold miner. I'm responding to a softball lob from my friend, Richard, asking me to respond to a statement in your above referenced post, wherein you wrote: Would anybody throw away something made out of the gold or silver? Oh, my!! *You have no idea!!!* The most recent stats I've read were from the Gold Field Minerals Report, annually issued wherein the best industry estimates of scrap/recycled amount of gold, gold I call discarded gold, tallies into the multi-millions of ounces. The last number I saw was a 1999 annual report. It exceeded 18,500,000 ounces of scrap gold that was recycled, by people like me. Over a million ounces are discarded annually in the USA every year. I have written a book wherein I've listed 6 pages of discarded items to check for gold on because I've found recoverable amounts of gold on them. Now, thanks to Richard's email, looks like I'm going to have to pencil in gold-plated wheel covers to the existing list for the next reprint.<g> This discarding gold habit has been going on globally for OVER 25 years and will continue at an ever increasing pace in the foreseable 30 years due to the continued expansion of gold consumption, currently furnished by central bank gold leasing "scams" currently supplying the deficit between mined supply and consumption. Our global discarding gold (and yes, silver) habits will not diminish in light of continued consumption of these metals. Just for fun, name an item, and ask me if I've seen it personally, tested it for gold content, and I'll tell you where I found it and under what circumstances...and possibly what price I paid for it to get the item in order to test it. This could be enlightening...I'll get some new ideas of places to look for gold to recycle and you can check out my knowledge base on gold recycling.. I look forward to your reply, and nice to meet you! gold_tutor