Comment on If you're fond of restoring 30-year-old PCs, but then you see some old PC parts being obliterated by scrappers just to get small pitiful pinches of gold.
StillAlive@piefed.world 3 days ago
Have you looked at price of gold lately?
Yeah, and one would get more gold by panning sand from a river somewhere in West Papua.
Yeah but then they’d have to travel there which reduces profit margin.
Go look up what happens to wannabe prospectors operating without license, at least in the USoA
Heck even the videos of gold/gem/geode prospectors I’ve watched make odd offhand comments about sicking police on tresspassers
lechekaflan@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Yeah, and one would get more gold by panning sand from a river somewhere in West Papua.
StillAlive@piefed.world 3 days ago
Yeah but then they’d have to travel there which reduces profit margin.
Justifier@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Go look up what happens to wannabe prospectors operating without license, at least in the USoA
Heck even the videos of gold/gem/geode prospectors I’ve watched make odd offhand comments about sicking police on tresspassers