What Does It Cost to Become a Professional Gold Treasure Hunter?

What Does It Cost to Become a Professional Gold Treasure Hunter?

The story made me want to jump in a boat and head out to sea while peering over the side to see whether I could spot any wrecks. The story also made me wonder just how much it would cost to equip myself to become a professional hunter of sunken gold. If you thought going to college was expensive, hold your hat. If you want to become a professional treasure hunter, you better bring some serious money with you.

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How Much Gold Is Hiding in Cemeteries and Burial Sites?

How Much Gold Is Hiding in Cemeteries and Burial Sites?

If you use a powerful metal detector to search for precious metals in a cemetery near where you live, what will happen? One result of your search will be that the local police will arrive and take you away, because you are acting like a grave robber. But in the 10-15 minutes before that happens, chances are that your metal detector will be recording a lot of “finds.”

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A Simple Security Lesson We Can Learn from Famous Gold Heists

A Simple Security Lesson We Can Learn from Famous Gold Heists

It’s fun to watch clever gold heists happening in movies like “The Italian Job.” It’s fun to read about gold thefts too – as long as the gold that was stolen didn’t belong to you. Here are the stories of three of the most intriguing gold heists in history...

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What Your Elderly Relatives Aren’t Telling You about the Gold They Own

What Your Elderly Relatives Aren’t Telling You about the Gold They Own

Most older relatives don’t intentionally hide precious metals from members of their families. What some tend to do, however, is to underestimate the value of the precious metal items that they own. As a result, they fail to cash in on their value at a time of life when money could come in very handy for them.

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The Worst Places to Hide Gold and Precious Metals

The Worst Places to Hide Gold and Precious Metals

Since the article’s advice comes from crooks, it’s pretty realistic. Here are some highlights: Don’t hide gold jewelry or other precious metals in underwear drawers. One of the criminals interviewed stated that for some reason, many homeowners think they are as secure as safety deposit boxes.Write here...

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Can Modern Alchemists Turn Base Metals into Gold?

Can Modern Alchemists Turn Base Metals into Gold?

Common wisdom says that medieval alchemists were kooky pseudo-scientists who wasted their time trying to turn base metals into gold. But now it seems that alchemists were not all charlatans or hopeless dreamers. Over the last century, scientists have demonstrated that turning base elements into gold really is possible, and that alchemists could have done it too if they had possessed nuclear reactors. And there are other modern people who call themselves alchemists too, as we recently discovered.

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“How Much Gold Is in My Body” and Answers to 6 Other Wild and Crazy Questions about Gold

“How Much Gold Is in My Body” and Answers to 6 Other Wild and Crazy Questions about Gold

Because we are one of the leading gold refineries in the world, we hear an awful lot of questions about that precious metal. Most of the questions we hear are very smart, but we have also heard some very strange ones. In today’s post, we are going to answer some of the oddest...

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How Much Gold Does the Catholic Church Own?

How Much Gold Does the Catholic Church Own?

The gold – often found in ceremonial items, church furnishings and artworks – is something that was amassed through the efforts of religious individuals and clergy who built cathedrals and churches, furnished them, and dedicated it all to the glorification of God.

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How to Find Lost Gold Jewelry

How to Find Lost Gold Jewelry

If you have ever misplaced a gold ring, earring, or another piece of favorite gold jewelry, you know how frustrating the search can be. So today, we’d like to suggest some strategies that can help you find your lost treasures. As you will notice, many of the strategies we suggest for finding your lost jewelry are also good for finding jewelry that is hiding in old homes, furniture, clothing, and other places. Let’s take a closer look.

 

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How to Make Money Buying Precious Metals on eBay

How to Make Money Buying Precious Metals on eBay

Once a day, I get emails that display all the newly listed items on eBay that contain those words. It saves me the trouble of going to eBay daily to hunt for them. On a typical day, I get more than 100 listings that I can quickly review...

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Will the Apple Watch Cause Gold Prices to Soar?

Will the Apple Watch Cause Gold Prices to Soar?

There’s a rumor flying around that the new watches will contain so much gold that Apple stores are upping their security to protect them. This story is apparently true, but the new safes are being installed to protect high-end Apple watches that have 18K gold cases, not lower-end models that have only a few bucks worth of gold in their circuit boards.

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Why Gold Still Makes News Every Day

Why Gold Still Makes News Every Day

You’d think that gold wouldn’t be interesting anymore. People have been finding it and mining it for thousands of years. They’ve been using it to make jewelry, dental fillings and appliances, electronic devices, cosmetics and even medicines. Gold is old news, right? Not really. The fact is that gold, the precious metal that has been used by humans for longer than just about any other, continues to make the news most every day. Here are some news stories from just the last few weeks...

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Make Money by Recycling Gold Buttons, Buckles and Cufflinks

Make Money by Recycling Gold Buttons, Buckles and Cufflinks

How much are those small pieces worth? In most cases, they don’t contain enough gold to bring you much of a return if you send them to our gold refinery. But some old buttons, buckles, studs and cufflinks do contain gold that could be worth more than what you pay for them. If you send them to us for refining, you could be rewarded with a payment for much more than you paid for the items you found.

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Do Old Digital Cameras Contain Precious Metals that Can Be Recycled?

Do Old Digital Cameras Contain Precious Metals that Can Be Recycled?

Hundreds of millions of digital cameras have been sold each year. That means that there are over a billion digital cameras waiting to be traded in or scrapped. That thought led me to research how much money can be made by recycling cameras. Here are answers to questions about camera recycling...

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Three Reasons Why the Gold You Have Has Mystical and Magical Properties

Three Reasons Why the Gold You Have Has Mystical and Magical Properties

Gold is beautiful. It conducts electricity. It can be shaped easily. It is bright and shiny, even when found in riverbeds and mines. People are always finding new ways to use it in electrical, aerospace and even medical applications. That’s all true. But there is something else about gold – something that is a bit harder to explain: Gold is mysterious and magical...

 

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Karat Gold: A Quick Review to Start the New Year Profitably

Karat Gold: A Quick Review to Start the New Year Profitably

Will you liquidate some of your gold holdings in the coming year? If you do, today’s post will help you understand how much money you can receive for them. Karat ratings are a bit confusing, because they are based on the number 24, not the base number 100 that we use when working with dollars and percentages. Let’s make things simpler by offering these conversions from karat ratings into percentages...

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Should You Believe Conspiracy Theories about Gold?

Should You Believe Conspiracy Theories about Gold?

That could explain why over the years, precious metals have been the subject of a lot of conspiracy theories like this one: "Someone out there (a bank, a foreign government, a cartel) is hoarding a huge amount of gold in order to create demand and drive up prices. When the price rises, that evil “someone” will sell off vast reserves of the precious metal and make astronomically high profits." It sounds kind of plausible, right? And its narrative is valid on some level.

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Finding Gold and Silver in Ceremonial Religious Items and Artifacts

Finding Gold and Silver in Ceremonial Religious Items and Artifacts

The recent holiday services and celebrations remind us that precious gold and silver can be found in many ceremonial items that are used for religious purposes. Here are a few reasons why this could be a good time to reclaim the precious metals that religious items contain...

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Why Your Recyclable Gold Will Always Be in Demand

Why Your Recyclable Gold Will Always Be in Demand

All of us who work with precious metals are acutely aware that gold is trading at pretty low prices these days. But does that mean that demand for gold is about to go away? Or does it mean that you should forget about recycling gold today if you need cash? Not at all. You see, the demand for gold is at an all time high today, for some very compelling reasons...

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Can Gold Be Recycled from Gilt Glass?

Can Gold Be Recycled from Gilt Glass?

Why are we exploring this topic today? Simply because you are likely to come across objects made from gilt glass in more places than you expect. Whether you are searching flea markets and antique sales or liquidating the contents of a home, an office building, an antique store, you will probably find gilt glass in…

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