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Growing Your Own Gold

Posted by timothy on from the requires-patience dept.

An anonymous reader submits: "Scientists believe it may be possible to grow gold like growing potatoes. Time to throw away my IT degree and go back to being a primary producer!"

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  1. what they do... by pb · · Score: 3, Interesting

    No, they don't really grow gold, they just sort of extract it and move it around. Unlike growing a potato.

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  2. Georgius Agicola said it first by geoswan · · Score: 4, Interesting
    I have a copy of De Re Metallica, the 2nd book on metallurgy and related arts published outside of China. Rather I have a translation of it.

    Written in 1556, by a German, in Latin -- it covered labor management, metal working, ore processing, mining and prospecting .

    Agricola explained that gold grew in the ground, like the roots of trees. So, he said it first.

    (The first book was entitled Pirotechnia, written in Italian, in the city of Siena, in 1540, by one Vannocio Biringucio.)

    (I know Agricola doesn't sound like a German name. His real name was Georg Bauer. Like Nicholas Copernicus he translated his name into Latin. People did that back then.)