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Man Mines Midtown New York Sidewalks
43-year-old Raffi Stepanian makes money searching New York City streets, but it's not loose change or soda cans he's looking for, it's gold. Stepanian says he can make almost $1000 a week scouring the diamond district's streets for bits of gold, platinum, and precious gems. "Material falls off clothes, on the bottom of shoes, it drops off jewelry, and it falls in the dirt and sticks to the gum on the street. The percentage of gold out here on the street is greater than the amount of gold you would find in a mine . . . It comes close to a mother lode because in the street, you're picking up gold left by the industry," he says.
Actually, unlike gold (which does require large amounts of toxic chemicals to refine), aluminum isn't refined chemically; instead, it takes large amounts of electricity (which is why you didn't have aluminum production until the 20th century).
Do not feed the trolls.
This is a hardcore quack fucker just trying to advertise here.
Why is it so hard to only have politicians for a few years, then have them go away?