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t-ara-fan 36 points ago +36 / -0

Debeers could handle the marketing.

But yeah you are right. Stupid article. These things are usually iron and nickel rich metal. The price of nickel would drop pretty fast if a few billion tons of it hit the market.

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MajJamesMcFarlane 15 points ago +19 / -4

Even if it was 100% gold. Hell, especially if it was 100% gold. At that point the cheapest and best wiring would be gold and no one would be building houses with copper wire again

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Hanging_Chad 32 points ago +32 / -0

electrical conductivity of gold is 70% of copper. gold is plated on electronics to prevent corrosion

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Adwest232323 2 points ago +2 / -0

We would all have gold hollow points then.