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that chemistry has been around for years - nobel prizes are always 10-20 years late. unfortunately its a very small market. i have done a few Heck reactions using palladium myself and not only is a small amount used but it can easily be recycled. i'm still super bullish on palladium though

i was thinking about that as well but i can't find the link on his website??

soooooo close to $1300

and yet they also add vat - i thought 2nd hand silver doesn't have to pay vat?

thats really interesting, keep us updated. i'm always fascinated at the idea of 'finding' something for free, i guess all of us are, pirate treasure and all that.

where were you searching? just a random field or beach?

very curious, thanks for the info.

its not unusual on 22k coins like sovs or krugs (which contain copper) but it should be impossible on .999 gold! maybe your maple has touched another coin and some copper has rubbed off onto it?? acid would not have any effect on the gold (unless it also contained some other metal).

no offence to drbubb but considering what he believes in the fringe section, i'll hold on to my physical thanks

lol - now i see why you think gold will fall to $320 - you're crazy.

me neither - people seem to want to call a top in gold simply because its more expensive than before, and it surely can't go up any more?!?!?! well, people have been saying that for last 10 years and the world economy is in worse and worse shape everyday. whats important to most of us is what happens to the pound and i don't see a strong pound for a looooong time, not with our debt. a couple of people keep asking me when will i sell my gold? and all i say is definitely not this year. so i'll be holding i think

i'm glad i got a 1kg lunar a couple of weeks ago!

its a strange time of day for it to go up so much.

yeah, me too - i'm making money but at what cost? i would rather the world worked fairly - not much chance of that.

wow - i haven't seen it move this much in pounds for a long time - £811 at the moment and we don't even have the election result yet - a hung parliament and god knows what will happen to the pound.

true, its been made clear that a shrinking gdp (the dreaded DEFLATION!!) is a terror that must not be allowed to happen.

that graph is a bit misleading GF - the large spike in 1933(ish) is due to the GDP shrinking massively, rather than the debt expolding - still doesn't mean the right hand side won't explode upward though.

doesn't seem to go back very far (1-2 years) or is it just me?

recovering well today. there is supposed to be a bernake speech today - is that the reason?

jims right - we've had a few $50 drops over the years, its just noise.

i agree - put in context silver is stupidly cheap.

i know what you mean - silver and gold have been used for centuries BECAUSE its easy to detect fakes. its easy to detect when lead has been used for silver and its easy to spot gold fake also (and i'm not convinced anybody anywhere has ever made a tungsten fake - lots of scare stories but no evidence its actually happened, or even possible/easy to do)

true. the question is, what are they going to do about it? i honestly don't know - and thats why i own gold.

exactly - gold vs sterling, its a no brainer rally. there was a time when a $50 drop would have got me really worried but now, its no big deal - a drop to $1150 whoopee doo, doesn't matter.

i think you might be right - pound dropping and gold steady.