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To: Professor Dotcomm who wrote (81255)	1/29/2002 12:01:07 PM
From: PAUL ROBERTSON	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 116752

wonder what the recovery costs might be per oz......

To: Professor Dotcomm who wrote (81255)	1/30/2002 2:35:31 AM
From: E. Charters	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 116752

That is like the amount of gold in seawater. Fritz Haber, who invented the ammonia process that allowed countries to make all kinds of fertilizer and munitions, making possible, world war 1 and world war 2, also thought of a way to get gold out of seawater in order to pay Germany's war debt in 1919. It almost worked except for lack of payback in gold alone. They tried electrolysis. There is a possible way now that a method might work. New developments in weak electrolyte processes may make it feasible to collect all metals, salts and make pure water at the same time. Don't laugh. All Magnesium metal and road salt is now recovered from seawater by precipitation. This is a good idea. Gold in seawater is mostly colloidal, so you cannot used dissolved figures to reckon its pay. Anyway there is every metal known to man in seawater. You add them up with the salts and the pure water and it definitely would pay if you had a process for direct precipitation that was not too involved. There is such a process. EC<:-}

To: Professor Dotcomm who wrote (81255)	1/30/2002 10:30:17 AM
From: Richnorth	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 116752

Since that ancient star (BD + 173248) has plenty of gold, platinum (which are very dense metals) and silver, its gravitational pull will be rather high. As a consequence, spaceships are likely to have a hard time landing there. Lift off, especially with heavy pay loads of the precious metals, may well be impossible??? But I suppose that where the PGMs are concerned, there's no obstacle so great that it cannot be surmounted, eh? Ah! but times have changed! Now gold is considered a "barbaric relic" of a bygone era. Why bother to sweat for it when it is easier to print unlimited amounts of fiat money, eh? By the way, in Prescott's "History of the Conquest of Peru" there's a line, presumably borrowed from the Spaniards:- "There is no mountain so high that an ass laden with gold cannot pass................."