Ethiopia could be sitting on one of world's great untapped gold deposits

phys.org ^ | January 24, 2018 | by Liam Bullock, The Conversation

[Red Badger]

King Solomon's Mines?...............................

[Red Badger]

PinGGG!.......................

[Ann Archy]

Here comes the CLINTONS!!! A sh*thole country with GOLD they can steal! BEWARE Ethiopians!

[VietVet876]

I’d like to see Tony Beets, his family and his dredges down there. They might need a thousand armed mercs for protection but the show would be great.

[Red Badger]

If there’s a way to screw it up, Todd Hoffman will find it!................

[RitchieAprile]

I’d prefer to see the Ethiopes benefit from their own gold.

[VietVet876]

Yeah. Todd’s a guy with a capital “L” permanently engraved in his forehead.

[painter]

Todd Hoffman is on his way.

[Delta 21]

Do starving Ethiopians prefer salt and pepper on their gold?

[NorthMountain]

It’s a schist-hole.

[DannyTN]

How much would it cost to buy Ethiopia?
Population 102.4 million
per capita income $660.

So $66 billion would cover a years income for the entire country. I say we offer them $300 billion, and they all have to move somewhere else.

[wally_bert]

There could be a sequel to Roger Moore’s movie Gold now.

[dsc]

That should pay for a lot of infrastructure and industrialization to lift the Ethiopian people out of poverty. That, and unicorn ranching.

[shotgun]

So true, and then when you add in his Dad it just becomes a comedy of errors. I think Todd’s biggest problem is he loses focus so fast.

[Dead Corpse]

That would be ideal. Export them some Capitalism and First World tech to keep them from ruining their ecosystem... In exchange for stock options of course...

[Liberty Valance]

We're off to Ethiopia boys. We've got to get there before the hoopleheads or Mr. Hearst.

[lurk]

Sounds like a great opportunity for terrorists, slavers, poachers, smugglers, Clintons and the like.

[Wilhelm Tell]

I hope the Ethiopians prosper from this - the entire country, not just some well-connected people and foreigners.

[Migraine]

Exactly — the legendary “gold of Ophir” in the Bibe. The horn of Africa is the best of the several suggested locations of “Ophir”, if for no other reason than 1) its proximity to the Red Sea and Israel’s port of Eilat, and 2) the linguistic proximity of “Ophir” to “Afar”, the people who still inhabit the horn region.

[Red Badger]

California.....................