Tin cans filled with $10M in gold coins found buried in California

Re:Tin cans filled with $10M in gold coins found buried in C... by fennecfoxen on Tuesday February 25, 2014 @08:10PM (#7302040)

"In space, a single platinum-rich 500 meter wide asteroid contains about 174 times the yearly world output of platinum, and 1.5 times the known world-reserves of platinum group metals (ruthenium, rhodium, palladium, osmium, iridium, and platinum)." -- Planetary Resources, http://www.planetaryresources.com/asteroids/composition/ (take with as many grains of salt as you feel like)

But hey, I'm sure they can spare a mission to retrieve us some gold sooner or later. :P

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Re:Tin cans filled with $10M in gold coins found buried in C... by theandrewbailey on Wednesday February 26, 2014 @09:08AM (#7304937)

With that much/many valuable metals there, there would have to be plenty of gold, too. I have no doubt that gold will be mined and retrieved, because it has industrial value. Not to mention its incredible economic value, and because gold.

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Re:Tin cans filled with $10M in gold coins found buried in C... by brianbreslin on Tuesday February 25, 2014 @09:54PM (#7302536)

I am sure Elon Musk is working on this...

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