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Treasure hunter found 3 tons of sunken gold and can't leave jail in Ohio until he says where it is
Chicago Tribune ^
| 12-15-16
| Tribune news services
Posted on 12/17/2016 4:32:20 PM PST by dynachrome
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To: xzins
Precious metals use troy ounces, 12 to a pound.
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posted on
12/17/2016 5:01:28 PM PST
by
PeaceBeWithYou
(De Oppresso Liber! (50 million and counting in Afghanistan and Iraq))
To: PeaceBeWithYou
I googled it and have been reading up on it. Can’t find a troy ton.
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posted on
12/17/2016 5:05:40 PM PST
by
xzins
(Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy on me, a sinner.)
To: PeaceBeWithYou
Bit more than half a cubic yard
Easy to hide
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posted on
12/17/2016 5:07:02 PM PST
by
xzins
(Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy on me, a sinner.)
To: xzins
If it's 3 long tons, then about 0.155 cubic meters (1/7 of your guess, roughly), or around 20 inches/side.
1 m3 water = 1000 kg. Specific gravity of pure gold is 19.32. So 3 * 1000 / 19.32 = 0.155 m3.
Nominally ~$110 million. Although the coins are worth more than the current price of gold.
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posted on
12/17/2016 5:10:45 PM PST
by
FredZarguna
(And what Rough Beast, Its hour come 'round at last slouches toward Fifth Avenue to be born?)
To: Fiddlstix
Long since past needing to be done.
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posted on
12/17/2016 5:10:51 PM PST
by
Rurudyne
(Standup Philosopher)
To: FredZarguna
A 20-inch cube? That can’t be right. Why just this morning I was watching Gunsmoke, and the guy tossed a chest of gold off the train and into the buckboard five feet away!
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posted on
12/17/2016 5:15:16 PM PST
by
21twelve
(http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2185147/posts It is happening again.)
To: dynachrome
I hope he doesn’t tell them...
To: dynachrome
“I lost the gold and all my guns in an unfortunate canoe accident”
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posted on
12/17/2016 5:23:55 PM PST
by
Organic Panic
(Rich White Man Evicts Poor Black Family From Public Housing - MSNBCPBSCNNNYTABC)
To: Diana in Wisconsin
+1
“Wake me when they start jailing Politicians for squandering The Public Treasury!”
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posted on
12/17/2016 5:23:58 PM PST
by
dynachrome
(When an empire dies, you are left with vast monuments in front of which peasants squat to defecate)
To: 21twelve
To: xzins
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posted on
12/17/2016 5:24:47 PM PST
by
PeaceBeWithYou
(De Oppresso Liber! (50 million and counting in Afghanistan and Iraq))
To: xzins
x12
Gold is measured in Troy ounces which are 12 to a pound.
Don’t ask me why.
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posted on
12/17/2016 5:25:12 PM PST
by
Little Ray
(Freedom Before Security!)
To: xzins
Once you have converted the troy ounces to pounds, it is the same, 2000lb. per ton.
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posted on
12/17/2016 5:27:53 PM PST
by
PeaceBeWithYou
(De Oppresso Liber! (50 million and counting in Afghanistan and Iraq))
To: 21twelve
Why just this morning I was watching Gunsmoke, and the guy tossed a chest of gold off the train and into the buckboard five feet away! I know, right?
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posted on
12/17/2016 5:34:33 PM PST
by
FredZarguna
(And what Rough Beast, Its hour come 'round at last slouches toward Fifth Avenue to be born?)
To: FredZarguna
FYI -About 13 lbs. of gold would fit in a 1 lb. bag of flour
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posted on
12/17/2016 5:40:58 PM PST
by
PeaceBeWithYou
(De Oppresso Liber! (50 million and counting in Afghanistan and Iraq))
To: Fiddlstix
This gold find is the subject of one of the best books I’ve ever read. “Ship of Gold in the Deep Blue Sea” by Kinder.
SS Central America went down in the Atlantic in 1850’s off So Carolina (I think) carrying first minted coins and bars of the SF Mint from the Calif Gold Rush. This was pre-Panama Canal so the ship that left SF with the gold had to unload in Panama and go by ground and mules across Panama jungles and then board the side wheel SS Central America for the trip up the Atlantic Coast to NY. Exciting book. Ends at the recovery and sailing into port in Florida(?) and then facing the many law suits from the insurance companies who had paid out claims from 1850’s. As I remember 90% of those claims were dismissed by Virginia’s Maritime Court. Later I read newspaper accounts of Thompsons’ trip sadly into drugs, alcohol in Florida. I didn’t know ‘til just now that he’d been imprisoned. Fascinating story.
I read the book in late 1990’s (printed in late 1980’s as I remember as a Book of the Month Club) so forgive me the tiny details I’m sketchy on as that was a while ago.
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posted on
12/17/2016 5:42:29 PM PST
by
bunster
To: PeaceBeWithYou
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posted on
12/17/2016 5:42:50 PM PST
by
FredZarguna
(And what Rough Beast, Its hour come 'round at last slouches toward Fifth Avenue to be born?)
To: xzins
Gold is in Troy ounces. 12 to a pound not 16
To: FredZarguna; PeaceBeWithYou
Sorry, did not adjust for the density of whole wheat flour. The correct answer is about 11.5 lbs.
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posted on
12/17/2016 5:45:33 PM PST
by
FredZarguna
(And what Rough Beast, Its hour come 'round at last slouches toward Fifth Avenue to be born?)
To: DesertRhino
Easier to just use metric @ $36,574.66/kg.
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posted on
12/17/2016 5:48:22 PM PST
by
FredZarguna
(And what Rough Beast, Its hour come 'round at last slouches toward Fifth Avenue to be born?)
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