the missing nugget

[SCROUNGER]

No names, no packdrill. My son works at profitable goldmine and like most of the workers rarely sees any gold in the rock they extract to retrieve the gold from, so it created quite a stir a few weeks back when the miners actually exposed a nugget where they were extracting the paydirt. Word went up top to the brass and orders came back down to rope the area off so they could take some of the bosses down and have a gander.
The desk jockeys were all sorted and went down a kilometre or so to see the rare nugget, bugger if one of the miners in the meantime hadn't retrieved it form the rock face and scampered with it leaving a roped off are with a hole where the nugget was.
Because they never mine any nuggets there isn't any security on the gates in or out of the mine site so somebody's pocketed the nug for themselves and left the top brass extremely embarrassed.

 

[kemjak57]

OUCH

 

[Chewy]

Far out.

 

[SCROUNGER]

I have no idea how big it was and my son said he didn't get to see it himself. He said it went walkabout over a few shifts so it could have been anyone of a number of the actual miners themselves that souvenired it. The mine is saying they know the dna of their gold so they have feelers out trying to locate when and where it hits the market.

 

[Bjay]

Don't think they'll ever see that one again DNA of gold ? Pretty sure it's got to be animal not mineral to have DNA.
Still would suck if ya owned the mine. Who do you now trust.

 

[silver]

Start checking all their socks and jocks from now on.

 

[numpty]

are they hiring!

 

[Digger Danny]

are they hiring!

Yes A security officer :lol: :lol: :lol:

 

[SCROUNGER]

are they hiring!

Yes A security officer :lol: :lol: :lol:

Bit late, after the horse (or nugget) has bolted

 

[SCROUNGER]

Don't think they'll ever see that one again DNA of gold ? Pretty sure it's got to be animal not mineral to have DNA.
Still would suck if ya owned the mine. Who do you now trust.

I think they mean that the gold can be identified by its purity etc etc Bjay? My son just mentioned that in passing but gave no details?
It's been mentioned before on this forum, gold does funny things to people, and i suppose for one person at least, the temptation to get 'free' gold was too hard to resist.

 

[Nightjar]

The process is named "Gold Finger Printing" developed in the early 90's and has helped in the recovery of stolen gold and uncovered fraud in attempts to salt a mine with gold from adjacent areas.
Every gold mine has a unique finger print.
If you read the book Mates & Gold covering the very rich Big Bell Mine near Cue, it mentions many of the miners who worked in the mine had their own small shows nearby.
When the mine closed all the little shows finished up as well. Doesn't take Einstein to work out that the miners were using gold stolen from the Big Bell to keep their little shows producing.
Also the dishonest few "salted" mines by using gold particles packed into shot gun cartridges and fired into the face of a drive to tempt prospective buyers.

 

[peterau]

Melt it with some gold from a totally different location.