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To: Jeff Jordan who wrote (352996)1/10/2008 10:43:37 AM
From: Bid Buster  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 436258
 
It may still be out there but more and more is buried in landfills from all the discarded consumer electronics, even my printer ink cartridges have gold plated contacts.

Add it all up by the billions discarded every year and consider it gone.



To: Jeff Jordan who wrote (352996)1/10/2008 10:47:41 AM
From: oldirtybastard  Respond to of 436258
 
There are more organisms to share it with now and all the units gold is measured in keep shrinking in size relative to the gold being measured, as if gold was traveling at the speed of light and you and the measuring stick were standing still -g-



To: Jeff Jordan who wrote (352996)1/10/2008 11:54:15 AM
From: RealMuLan  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 436258
 
Gold can kill people, seriously. An old way to commit suicide (for some relatively rich people) in China is to swallow a piece of gold