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The Gold Rush  

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Reading through today’s news, something very interesting caught my attention.
Commercial prospector Ma’aden has invested $5.5 billion in equipment and development to prospects the sands of Saudi Arabia … for gold!

It appears that the sand in those deserts is nothing more then the topping of a huge sandwich consisting of various level of desired and expensive commodities, such as oil and gold. I wonder what’s next? Uranium?

People worrying that they will hit the bottom of the oil barrel soon, and run out of the good stuff, should rest assured. The bottom of the barrel is actually made from gold. They do have to sustain all the good life that was once built on crude oil, isn’t it? :)

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Written by robert

August 15th, 2008 at 5:49 am

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