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To: goldsheet who wrote (3305)	8/28/2002 11:51:24 PM
From: russet	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 4051

The geologists in the ivory towers of academia suggest that a small fraction of a percent of the world's prospective ground has been inspected with modern geophysical, geochemical and prospecting methods. Even less has seen a drill. Genesis theories of ore bodies have a habit of changing in remarkable ways every few years, even in mining camps that have been established for decades, even centuries. The volcanoes in and around New Zealand are estimated to spew out annual amounts of exhaled gold into the air and the sea that is said by the ivory tower folks to exceed total annual world mine production. Two thirds of Australian prospective ground hasn't even been staked, let alone prospected according to the former CEO of Normandy gold. Even when humans bury the stuff it comes back to the surface eventually (gggggggggggg) http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20020827/wl_nm/cambodia_buddhas_dc_1 Cambodian Workmen Unearth 27 Solid Gold Buddhas Tue Aug 27, 4:11 PM ET PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (Reuters) - Cambodian workmen have unearthed 27 solid gold Buddha statuettes, buried for hundreds of years beneath the foundations of a ruined pagoda hidden deep in the jungle, officials said Tuesday. The statues, about four inches high and each weighing around one pound, came to light at the weekend when builders started restoration work on the centuries-old pagoda destroyed by the Khmer Rouge ( news - web sites) in the 1970s. Pol Pot's ultra-Maoist guerrillas laid waste to temples, universities and businesses during a four-year reign of terror from 1975 to 1979 in which they tried to create a totally agrarian, peasant society. Nearly 2 million people were killed. "The workmen were supposed to be rebuilding the temple which was smashed up by the Khmer Rouge, but then they found these golden Buddhas and the whole construction work has had to stop," deputy provincial police chief Hang Sokhim told Reuters. "This is the first time I've heard of something like this." A special police guard had been placed around the pagoda in the central province of Kompong Thom, 70 miles north of the capital Phnom Penh, to protect the statues and stop looters flocking to the site. Four statues made of silver and bronze were also found beneath the sandstone pagoda, which is believed to be at least 200 years old, making the Buddhas even older. The find is already stirring up controversy between locals who want the statues to be placed in a special shrine inside the restored pagoda and government officials who are intent on putting them in a museum. "I want to see these statues placed in museums for the next generations to see them," said Sok Chheang, the chief of Baray district, where the find was made. Monks and nuns were overjoyed at the find, kicking off three days and two nights of religious celebrations. Kompong Thom's dense jungle is also littered with dozens of temples built by ancient Khmer civilizations in the sixth and seventh centuries, some 300 years before the massive temple complexes of Angkor Wat in the northwest.