Modern alchemy leaches gold from water

[dipsydoodle]

A small French start-up company is selling a technology with a hint of alchemy: turning water into gold.

Magpie Polymers operates from slightly shabby premises at a factory at Saint-Pierre-les-Nemours 80 kilometres (50 miles) southeast of Paris.

But it is at the leading edge of technology with a procedure developed at the prestigious Ecole Polytechnique in 2007.

The process is based on the use of tiny pellets of plastic resin through which waste water is pumped. Gold, platinum, palladium and rhodium, the world's most precious metals, little by little stick to the pellets and are thus separated from the waste water.

A single litre of this patented resin can treat five to 10 cubic metres of waste water and recover 50 to 100 grammes of precious metal, equivalent to "3,000 to 5,000 euros ($3,900 to $6,500)," Almoric said.

http://uk.finance.yahoo.com/news/modern-alchemy-leaches-gold-water-120603193.html

[formercia]

1. It's like making Elephant Stew

First, find an Elephant, or in this case "five to 10 cubic metres of waste water" with "50 to 100 grammes of precious metal, equivalent to "3,000 to 5,000 euros ($3,900 to $6,500),"

Otherwise, go get a real fuckin' Job!!

[dipsydoodle]

2. I take it you didn't read the article

Its not just any old waste water - its specific.