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Armed robbers steal four tonnes of gold in Zimbabwe
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| Thursday, July 28, 2011
| Kitsepile Nyathi
Posted on 07/28/2011 4:45:50 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
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Four tonnes of gold ore were allegedly stolen by a 46 member gang from a small scale gold mine in Zimbabwe in two separate raids. File | Africa Review
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posted on
07/28/2011 4:45:57 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; Bockscar; ColdOne; Convert from ECUSA; ...
[singing] Zim - Bab - Way - Whoa oh...
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posted on
07/28/2011 4:47:18 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
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To: SunkenCiv
Hope it was Navy Seal Team 6!
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posted on
07/28/2011 4:49:15 PM PDT
by
NoLibZone
(Life as Nancy Pelosi knows & wants it, must end, Let the nation collapse. DNC vote buys killed it.)
To: SunkenCiv
Gold ore is very different from gold. My neighbor probably has a ton of gold ore in her driveway. Rendered for gold, there might be a half ounce. Worth more as paving material. What kind of ore are we talking about?
/johnny
To: SunkenCiv
wait... the thieves are refining this ore themselves??
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posted on
07/28/2011 4:51:15 PM PDT
by
GeronL
(The Right to Life came before the Right to Happiness)
To: SunkenCiv
Four tonnes of gold ore were allegedly stolenGold ore what, they're not sure?
To: SunkenCiv; Clive
These thugs probably work for Mugabe
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posted on
07/28/2011 4:53:24 PM PDT
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GeronL
(The Right to Life came before the Right to Happiness)
To: SunkenCiv
Good luck with that gold ore dumbasses. LOL
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posted on
07/28/2011 4:54:19 PM PDT
by
cripplecreek
(Remember the River Raisin! (look it up))
To: SunkenCiv
"They were armed with catapults, stones, machetes, axes, knives, clubs and iron bars," the paper quoted a police source saying.Catapults? "Achmed, grab the catapults. You never know if we might need to breech some ramparts."
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posted on
07/28/2011 4:58:05 PM PDT
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Pan_Yan
To: Pan_Yan
Breach, not breech. Oops.
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posted on
07/28/2011 4:59:14 PM PDT
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Pan_Yan
To: Pan_Yan
Maybe you can move ore faster with catapults if you need to.
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posted on
07/28/2011 5:10:43 PM PDT
by
Sawdring
To: SunkenCiv
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Thanks for the ping, GeronL.
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posted on
07/28/2011 5:11:56 PM PDT
by
Clive
To: Pan_Yan
“catapults” = Slingshots in Brit-Speak.
Zimbabwe English is a form of Brit-Speak.
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posted on
07/28/2011 5:12:19 PM PDT
by
BwanaNdege
(For those who have fought for it, Life bears a savor the protected will never know.)
To: SunkenCiv
I was about to say that 4 tonnes of gold is the whole Zimbabwe treasury, probably worth about a gazillion Zimbabwe dollars. But then I saw that it was 4 tonnes of gold ore. The value would depend upon the concentration of gold in the ore. If, for example, the ore was 1/2% gold, the value would be about $300,000,000.
(Did I mention that those are Zimbabwe dollars? It would be less than a million in U.S. dollars.)
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07/28/2011 5:14:47 PM PDT
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Rocky
(REPEAL IT!)
To: Rocky
...probably worth about a gazillion Zimbabwe dollars. I'm sure you already know but just in case someone wanders along that doesn't Zimbabwe no longer has a currency. They use U.S. Dollars of South African Rands. Mugabe actually got away with paying off a large portion of their foreign debt with newly printed money until the IMF / World Bank figured out what was going on.
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posted on
07/28/2011 5:18:46 PM PDT
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Pan_Yan
To: Pan_Yan
Catapults are really, really old school! Ahhh, I long for the days of catapults, battering rams, siege towers, and flaming arrows! Any one for some boiling hot oil?
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posted on
07/28/2011 5:19:14 PM PDT
by
Jack Hydrazine
(It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine!)
To: BwanaNdege
Got it, thanks. That makes a lot more sense that dragging a trebuchet or two to the battle.
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posted on
07/28/2011 5:20:45 PM PDT
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Pan_Yan
To: Rocky
My son has some hyper inflationary Zimbabwe notes. One is for 15 trillion dollars. It was worth around 30 cents US when it was issued.
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posted on
07/28/2011 5:29:05 PM PDT
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TheOldLady
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