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- Runescape gold more valuable than Venezuelan currency (2022) https://sites.psu.edu/ist110pursel/2022/09/04/15154/ 85 comments
- Apple stock is the 2nd most valuable asset in the world (#1 is gold) https://www.madisontrust.com/information-center/the-25-most-valuable-assets-ranked-by-market-cap/ 2 comments
- Why Is Gold Valuable? https://ofdollarsanddata.com/why-is-gold-valuable/ 7 comments
- Tyrian purple: Ancient pigment that was more valuable than gold https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20231122-tyrian-purple-the-lost-ancient-pigment-that-was-more-valuable-than-gold 95 comments
- Ethereum Will Be Bigger Than Bitcoin and More Valuable Than Gold https://banyanhill.com/ethereum-bigger-than-bitcoin-more-valuable-than-gold/ 388 comments cryptocurrency
- Venezuela's currency is less valuable than World of Warcraft's virtual gold http://www.abc.net.au/triplej/programs/hack/venezuela-bolivar-less-valuable-than-world-of-warcraft-gold/8768056 9 comments worldnews
- Poaching the creature that's more valuable than gold. http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-32151983 5 comments worldnews
- Research Brief: ‘Fool’s gold’ may be valuable after all https://twin-cities.umn.edu/news-events/research-brief-fools-gold-may-be-valuable-after-all 4 comments science
- 'More valuable than gold': Yellowstone businesses prepare to fight mining https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/jul/16/yellowstone-mining-montana-public-lands 26 comments politics
- Denmark to confiscate gold, jewelry, and other valuables from refugees https://www.sovereignman.com/trends/denmark-to-confiscate-gold-jewelry-and-other-valuables-from-refugees-18342/ 20 comments worldnews
- It's official, gold is more valuable than platinum http://www.kitco.com/market/ 5 comments worldnews
- Apple stock is the 2nd most valuable asset in the world. #1 is gold; #3 is Saudi Aramco stock. https://www.madisontrust.com/information-center/the-25-most-valuable-assets-ranked-by-market-cap/ 164 comments apple
- With the lie going around that Bitcoin was always mean to be Gold 2.0, you should not ask what it was designed to be, you should ask what you (and the masses) want it to be. They make it valuable. https://www.reddit.com/r/btc/comments/bvw2hp/with_the_lie_going_around_that_bitcoin_was_always/ 32 comments btc
- World of Warcraft's' virtual gold is seven times more valuable than Venezuela's real money https://www.cnn.com/2018/05/08/world/world-of-warcraft-token-worth-more-than-venezuelas-currency-trnd/index.html?r=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com%2F 74 comments nottheonion
- If you took the gold chain of every active MLB player, and melted it down, how valuable would the combined weight be? https://www.reddit.com/r/baseball/comments/7457vv/if_you_took_the_gold_chain_of_every_active_mlb/ 8 comments baseball
- At $60,000 per pound, rhinoceros horn is more valuable by weight than gold, diamonds or cocaine. http://newsroom.ucla.edu/releases/which-is-most-valuable-gold-cocaine-or-rhino-horn 11 comments science
- The true cost of gold: The UK’s most valuable import from Brazil – gold – is fuelling deforestation in the Amazon, new footage reveals. https://theecologist.org/2022/jul/19/true-cost-gold 4 comments environment
- Catalytic converter thefts rise as metal inside 'more valuable than gold' | CBC News https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/kitchener-waterloo/catalytic-converter-thefts-canada-waterloo-guelph-1.5927734 4 comments nottheonion
- An unusual meteorite, more valuable than gold, may hold the building blocks of life https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/08/unusual-meteorite-more-valuable-gold-may-hold-building-blocks-life 338 comments space
- Which one would be more valuable : Giannis winning a ring with the Bucks in 2019, or a gold medal with Greece in 2020 Olympics? https://www.reddit.com/r/nba/comments/8oexm5/which_one_would_be_more_valuable_giannis_winning/ 35 comments nba
- Rhino horn now more valuable than gold, diamonds and cocaine, at $60K a pound making poaching a ultra profitable business. http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/may/17/rhino-horn-considered-cure-all-and-aphrodesiac-now/ 148 comments worldnews
- Scientists extract gold from e-waste to transform CO2 into valuable chemicals | The team’s innovation recovers gold from discarded electronics and uses it as a catalyst to transform CO2 into useful organic materials. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-024-55156-3 10 comments science
- Research from Curtin University have found that tiny amounts of gold can be trapped inside pyrite, commonly known as 'fool's gold', which would make it much more valuable than its name suggests. https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2021-06/cu-crf062521.php 5 comments science
- Protect solar system from mining 'gold rush', say scientists - The proposal calls for more than 85% of the solar system to be placed off-limits to human development, leaving little more than an eighth for space firms to mine for precious metals, minerals and other valuable materials. https://www.theguardian.com/science/2019/may/12/protect-solar-system-space-mining-gold-rush-say-scientists 8 comments space
- In 2018 Mookie became the first player in Major League history to win the Most Valuable Player, Silver Slugger, Gold Glove, batting title, and World Series in the same season. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/mookie_betts 114 comments baseball
- Bacteria produce gold nuggets by digesting toxic metals - High concentrations of heavy metals are toxic for most living creatures. The bacterium C. metallidurans has found a way to extract valuable trace elements from a compound of heavy metals without poisoning itself, to form tiny gold nuggets. http://pressemitteilungen.pr.uni-halle.de/index.php?modus=pmanzeige&pm_id=2830 1041 comments science
- Crazy stuff from web bot: China is pushing bitcoin to fight Dollar! $1,488 price target, silver to reach shortage & more valuable than Gold. US gov to ban hoarding silver http://www.crushthestreet.com/videos/live-interviews/silver-banned-government-2020s-bitcoin-skyrocket-clif-high-web-bot-predictions 14 comments btc
- Denmark is poised to pass a law requiring newly arrived refugees to hand over valuables, including gold or jewelry, to help pay for the costs of lodging them. http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/14/world/europe/denmark-refugees-confiscate-valuables.html 4526 comments worldnews
- Scientists develop new generation of gamma-ray spectroscope that appears perfectly suited for detecting veins of gold, platinum, rare earths and other valuable material hidden within asteroids, moons and other airless objects floating around the solar system. http://news.vanderbilt.edu/2015/11/new-detector-perfect-for-asteroid-mining/ 3 comments science
- Researchers investigating ways of extracting valuable metals such as gold and copper, and the rare earths palladium and vanadium, from human effluent have outlined their findings at a conference in Denver. The waste from a million Americans may hold about $13 million (£8.6m) of metals. http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-32026636 4 comments worldnews
- Glenn Beck's followers even defend Goldline and attack Anthony Weiner's Hearings to regulate gold companies. There comments on Glenn's new BLAZE site are all arguments that gold is valuable? Always amazes me how stupid some people can be.. http://www.theblaze.com/stories/weiner-schedules-hearings-to-regulate-gold-companies/ 3 comments reddit.com
- Most counterfeiters make something worthless appear valuable. One Seattle artist made something valuable - $100 worth of gold - and made a fake penny out of it. He used it as part of some change to buy a porn mag. Two years later, a Brooklyn woman finds it in her change purse. http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/11/04/maker-learns-the-fate-of-a-penny-made-of-gold/ 29 comments reddit.com
- Silver and gold are not merely valuable commodities, investments, and media of exchange. More importantly, they are key "checks and balances" in America's legal and political institutions. http://news.goldseek.com/gata/1208758200.php 10 comments business