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There is gold in them biosolids - the trick is how to retrieve it

Published Tue, Mar 24, 2015 · 09:50 PM

Washington

HUMAN faeces contains gold and other precious metals that could be worth hundreds of millions of dollars, experts say.

Now the trick is how to retrieve them - a potential windfall that could also help save the planet.

"The gold we found was at the level of a minimal mineral deposit," said Kathleen Smith, of the US Geological Survey, after her …

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