Gold in faeces 'worth millions'

[BD231]

 

[Jeff7]

Feces

Fæces

 

[VirtualLarry]

Feces

Shit, this thread has really gone to the crapper!

 

[Ns1]

I'm still not understanding how this works...

 

[The Boston Dangler]

Gold Pooper!
He's the man, the man with the Midas turds

he loves only poop
only poop
HE LOVES POOOOOP

Um...so exactly how do humans end up ingesting gold, again?

if you're alive, you're taking in teeny tiny amounts of every long-lived element.

Fæces

like rod stewart?

 

[DigDog]

there's gold in seawater too, but it just doesn't pay trying to extract it.

 

[SunnyD]

Butt nugget.

 

[slayer202]

I'm still not understanding how this works...

sounds like bullshit. I get so frustrated with news articles that leave out the most important pieces of information, like how the fuck there is gold in our shit.

 

[Ichinisan]

sounds like bullshit. I get so frustrated with news articles that leave out the most important pieces of information, like how the fuck there is gold in our shit.

This x1,000

 

[Arcadio]

Didn't you guys learn anything from Chemistry/Biology? Almost every element is found in your body because everything you eat can be traced back to the soil, so essentially when you eat food you're really eating organized soil with some potential energy stored in it.

 

[CZroe]

Didn't you guys learn anything from Chemistry/Biology? Almost every element is found in your body because everything you eat can be traced back to the soil, so essentially when you eat food you're really eating organized soil with some potential energy stored in it.

They said that it was "almost" at the levels miner would consider worth mining. The would would have to be glittering for your theory to make any sense. How about we mine it from the soil the food came from in the first place?

If it is legit then it is probably from people swallowing bits of jewelry or dropping earrings and such in the drain.

 

[HamburgerBoy]

Looking more into it, the media and pop science reports are full of shit as usual.

http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/es505329q

$280 per ton, including all metals (not just gold).

 

[RGUN]

Looking more into it, the media and pop science reports are full of shit as usual.

http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/es505329q

$280 per ton, including all metals (not just gold).

I don't think you have an appreciation for just how little gold there can be in one ton of material for it to be economically recoverable - conversely, I would imagine that you have no idea how much earth must be disturbed to get enough gold for a ring/necklace/etc.

 

[slayer202]

I don't think you have an appreciation for just how little gold there can be in one ton of material for it to be economically recoverable - conversely, I would imagine that you have no idea how much earth must be disturbed to get enough gold for a ring/necklace/etc.

so you think people are going to start mining waste for gold? because they aren't.

perhaps eventually it could be worked into bill gates' waste into water initiative, but no one is going to start buying shit in bulk

 

[RGUN]

so you think people are going to start mining waste for gold? because they aren't.

perhaps eventually it could be worked into bill gates' waste into water initiative, but no one is going to start buying shit in bulk

I didn't say that anywhere in my statement, but if you think $280 worth of minerals in one ton of material isn't significant, I would say that you are wrong. The proportions are what is important, if 1/10th of that is gold, or any one mineral, we can start having a conversation.

 

[KlokWyze]

Feces

You say tomato I say tomäto. :awe:

 

[Ns1]

Didn't you guys learn anything from Chemistry/Biology?

No

 

[Printer Bandit]

how come science doesn't know how to create gold from other elements?

 

[slayer202]

I didn't say that anywhere in my statement, but if you think $280 worth of minerals in one ton of material isn't significant, I would say that you are wrong. The proportions are what is important, if 1/10th of that is gold, or any one mineral, we can start having a conversation.

If there was $280 worth of gold in a ton of waste, I still don't think it would be "economically recoverable"

 

[RGUN]

If there was $280 worth of gold in a ton of waste, I still don't think it would be "economically recoverable"

I would make the same statement here. I don't think you have an appreciation for how little gold is required to present an economically recoverable resource.

 

[Paladin3]

If there was $280 worth of gold in a ton of waste, I still don't think it would be "economically recoverable"

Don't forget about the royalties from the History Channel show $hit Miners.

 

[Rakehellion]

 

[CZroe]

how come science doesn't know how to create gold from other elements?

Think about that word for a second. "Element." Yeah. "Element."

You can't make an element from another element without fusion, fission, or radioactive decay. That's why we call it an "element." Elements are the elemental building blocks of all other compounds. It's why we call them "elements." Their "building blocks" are sub-atomic particles.

 

[slayer202]

I would make the same statement here. I don't think you have an appreciation for how little gold is required to present an economically recoverable resource.

do you know that 1 pound of feathers is just as heavy as 1 pound of rocks?

 

[BoberFett]

how come science doesn't know how to create gold from other elements?

It does. Alchemists figured it out hundreds of years ago, but greedy corporations killed the technology, just like the did the electric car.