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| Subject: LOL, push to start mining gold from poo Wed Mar 25, 2015 2:14 am | |
| When you are sitting on the toilet it turns out you are also sitting on a gold mine.
Faeces is the last place you would expect to find gold, but scientists have suggested mining raw sewage for precious metals.
According to research by the American Chemical Society, human waste flushed down the toilet contains a fortune worth of silver, platinum and gold.
According to a study published earlier this year in Environmental Science and Technology, faeces from one million Americans might contain $13 million worth of metal.
By the same calculations, there would be about $299 million worth of human waste floating around in Australia.
https://au.pfinance.yahoo.com/fame-and-fortune/article/-/26794784/the-push-to-start-mining-gold-from-poo/ |
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