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The Amazing Story of the Gold Accumulating Machine
Image by Flickr user Project BS In 1897 Charles E. Fisher and Prescott Ford Jernegan presented their ‘gold accumulator’ to a crowd of potential investors at Passamaquoddy Bay, Maine. They claimed it could suck particles of the precious metal out of the swirling currents, making untold fortunes – [...]
Continue reading...$500M in Sunken Treasure, and Other Great Discoveries Undersea
Friday, May 2, 2008
Image from slava The news broke yesterday that the richest shipwreck of all time had been discovered– over 500 Million USD worth of gold and silver coin–had been found in an “undisclosed location in the Atlantic Ocean.” This is hardly the first time a private enterprise has gone [...]
Continue reading...Black Gold: How Brazil May Have Catapulted Itself To Massive Oil Riches
Friday, April 18, 2008
As I type this, plans to invade Brazil that haven’t seen the light of day since 1936 are being dusted off in the Pentagon. Image from hanneorla The proud home of Ronaldo, Pele, and some of the hottest women on the planet has struck 33 billion barrels of oil [...]
Continue reading...How Much is an Oscar Statuette Really Worth?
Monday, February 25, 2008
Last night at the Oscars John Stewart said “Oscar is 80 this year, which makes him now automatically the front-runner for the Republican (presidential) nomination.” However, I’m not sure he would have made his little dig if he had known what Environmental Graffiti had to say… Image by [...]
Continue reading...The Real Price of Gold
Friday, February 8, 2008
A lot has been written about the environmental damage done by gold mining. A woman in Guinea searches for gold in a makeshift mining site Less familiar is the harm that it does to the miners themselves. The gold that shimmers and sparkles in the windows of jewellers’ shops [...]
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Monday, July 7, 2008
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