globeandmail.com: There's gold in them thar sewers

[dracodraconis]

globeandmail.com: There's gold in them thar sewers

A sewage treatment facility in Japan has recorded a gold yield of 1,890 grams/tonne of incinerated sludge, making it higher than the yeild of some of the world's most productive gold mines.

Comments

[lyanna-beth.livejournal.com]

Guess I'd better think of trading in my first wedding ring. It weighs a full ounce! :)

[wetdryvac.livejournal.com]

Holy... er... crap...

[ancalagon-tb.livejournal.com]

It would be interesting to know what the yield is per tons of sludge - I'm sure it takes a lot of sludge to generate one ton of sludge ash!