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A little future fun for Gold Bugs....?
RogerB
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Interesting - mercury into gold.
In 10 years lab grown diamonds have blown the bottom out of mined diamond prices. Could the same happen to gold? 
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How about lab grown houses to weaken the housing market for us youngsters? That would be much more useful.
"But seek ye first the kingdom of God and His righteousness and all these things shall be added unto you" Matthew 6:33. Young fellow suffering from Bust Half fever.
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In time, yes. I'll be dead by then and my Gold sold at a nice profit.
Thanks for sharing the article!
"In 2025, CERN said its Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the world's most powerful particle accelerator, had created about 29 picograms, or 29 trillionths of a gram, of gold during its 2015–2018 run"
More like your grandkids grandkids
I’ll stick with rare coins. They sure ain’t mining any more of those.
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Is it time to become a Mercury Bug?
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Yup, and Marathon Fusion said they made 10 times as much as CERN. That would be 0.00000000029 grams.
Mercury in gold . Kinda relative. Winged Liberty.
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That's a fluid subject....
That would be a solid observation, if it were at least −37.8922 °F.
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I'm ready to invest.
Can you float me some money?
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Pound-coin-floating-in-mercury.jpg
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"To Be Esteemed Be Useful" - 1792 Birch Cent --- "I personally think we developed language because of our deep need to complain." - Lily Tomlin
I can see that company is gonna put neutron stars out of business
I can't wait until this news is 'verified' but I won't be holding my breath
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The atomic nuclei are not changed.
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Making gold from other elements is a nuclear reaction.
There is a tremendous difference between the two.
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The cost per ounce would be in the billions of dollars. And, no, there is no way to make it less expensive because of the amount of energy involved.
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Picky, picky, picky. Never let the facts get in the way of a good story!
I am reminded of an episode of the TV show "Superman" from the mid to late 1950's. Word gets out that a scientist (played by the actor who voiced Winnie the Pooh) had invented a process to make gold, so some casting office bad guys come to kidnap him and steal the process. Superman saves the day, and the scientist is telling Superman and Lois and Jimmy the process... "First you start with one ounce of Platinum, and do (such and such), and you end up with one ounce of gold." Lois or Jimmy speak up and say "But doesn't the ounce of platinum cost more than an ounce of gold?" and the scientist says "Oh yes. I just did this to see if I could do it!"
In the 1890s the US Mint got dragged into refereeing a Patent Office claim about making gold from other metals. (Wrote it up....might revise and publish.)
If you are referring to the 1897 William Brice application, I would not characterize the Mint's involvement as that of a referee. Brice was requested , and attempted, to demonstrate his patent by the Interior Department. Interior, which lacked facilities, requested Treasury's assistance for a test location. The New York Assay Office was assigned. Three of the assayers at the NY Office determined Brice's process produced less gold than was contained in his Antimony sample.
May wish to review : Sean B. Seymore, Making Patents Useful, 98 Minn. L. Rev. 1046 (2014).
Yes, that's the case. I looked though my notes, but had written only about half the article, including this bit:
"Then tests would be made at the Mint’s assay laboratory in Washington DC beginning May 5 by Andrew Mason, Superintendent of the New York Assay Office; Dr. Daniel K. Tuttle, Melter & Refiner of the Philadelphia Mint; and Cabel Whitehead, Assayer, Bureau of the Mint, Washington DC."
I'll check the Seymore, Minn Law Review as you suggest. Thanks.