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 ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Yeah but then they’d have to travel there which reduces profit margin. 

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• 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

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