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To: gao seng who wrote (168826)8/8/2001 10:13:45 AM
From: DMaA  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 769667
 
He says when either solid or liquid gold is ingested, it is toxic to most life forms.

I don't think gold is toxic - unless you apply it like Goldfinger did to that poor girl in the movie.

I've seen a wine in a liquor store who's gimmick was it had flecks of real gold floating around in it. I have heard of fancy restaurants in the far east serving meals garnished with flakes of gold.



To: gao seng who wrote (168826)8/8/2001 10:26:30 AM
From: DMaA  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 769667
 
Item II Lovley's lab has previously published evidence that iron-reducing microorganisms are involved in the formation of uranium ores, changing uranium to a form that precipitates out of water. Massive accumulations of magnetite created by iron-reducing microbes during the Precambrian period of the earth's development now are important deposits of iron ore, according to Lovley.

This is not new. This was the explanation for the existence of the massive iron ranges in N. MN. I was taught as a boy.