Gold coins worth $13M found in 500-year-old shipwreck
Diamond miners recently discovered a ship that went down 500 years ago after draining a man-made lagoon on Namibia’s coast. While shipwrecks are often found along Africa’s Skeleton Coast, this one just...
View ArticleGold digger finds massive nugget worth nearly $250K
This was a golden find! An Australian amateur miner discovered a 145-ounce solid gold nugget while on a trip with his buddies. The unidentified gold digger was exploring Central Victoria’s Golden...
View ArticleMetals mogul says son-in-law stole $150K in gold
The owner of a Canadian precious-metals company says his Big Apple-based son-in-law stole 10 Swiss gold ingots, worth $150,000, from a company safe deposit box. Sprott Money founder Eric Sprott is...
View ArticleMan snatches $1.6M in gold from back of truck
Luckiest thief ever? New video shows how a quick-footed bandit swiped a bucket from an armored truck in Midtown, which — allegedly unbeknownst to him — contained nearly $1.6 million worth of gold...
View ArticleCops ID suspect who swiped gold flakes from armored truck
Police have identified the man they say hit the jackpot after snatching a bucket of gold flakes from the back of an armored truck in Midtown Manhattan this past September. Julio Nivelo, 53, allegedly...
View ArticleGold flakes thief made a career of boosting from trucks
Cops are trying to track down the man who hit the jackpot after snatching a bucket of gold flakes from the back of an armored truck in Midtown Manhattan this past September—a case that a police...
View ArticleGold thief suspected in several other heists, cops say
The man who made off with a bucket of gold flakes from the back of an armored truck in Midtown in September is believed to be connected to seven other thefts in Manhattan from May to August of this...
View ArticleGold flakes thief busted in Ecuador
Cops finally found their pot of gold thief. The man who swiped a bucket of gold flakes from an armored truck in Midtown Manhattan has been busted in Ecuador by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement...
View ArticleMint worker gets prison for smuggling gold in his butt
He really was sitting on a gold mine. Leston Lawrence, a Royal Canadian Mint worker convicted of stealing 22 gold “pucks” by smuggling them in his rectum, was sentenced to 30 months in prison Thursday,...
View ArticleThe illegal gold miners of Ghana
A photographer captured the harsh reality of illegal mining under the unforgiving sun in Ghana.
View ArticleBuried Nazi gold discovered in Germany
An amateur archaeologist in Germany has found a historic collection of gold coins worth around 45,000 euros, probably buried during the Nazi era or shortly after World War II, experts said on...
View ArticleStubborn hedge fund titans continue making bets on gold
Most fund managers have finally thrown in the towel on gold — but not hedgie titans John Paulson and David Einhorn. Money managers are “net short” gold for the first time since 2006, according to a...
View ArticleTeen goes for swim in lake, finds gold bar
BERLIN — A teenager has made an unexpected find while swimming in a lake in the German Alps: a 17.6-ounce bar of gold. Police said Wednesday that they are still trying to figure out where the bar comes...
View ArticleLoot hunters blocked from site of alleged Nazi gold train
WARSAW, Poland — Polish authorities are taking action against treasure hunters who are swarming the site of an alleged Nazi gold train in southwestern Poland. The city of Walbrzych and surrounding...
View ArticleJailed man may hold key to solving $5 million gold heist
Law enforcement officials hope a Florida man who pleaded guilty to extortion and was sentenced to about three-and-half years in prison on Tuesday may help identify who stole an estimated $4.8 million...
View ArticleThe perfect gift for the ‘hedge fund d-bag’ who has everything
Calling all aspiring celebrities, billionaires, hedge funders and people who just have money to burn…or eat. Los Angeles-based jerky purveyor Three Jerks has rolled out a new way to chow down on...
View ArticlePolice force-feed 40 bananas to gold thief
Police in India went bananas after catching a thief who swallowed a gold chain as they were chasing him — forcing him to eat 40 of the potassium-rich fruits to get at the evidence. Gopi Ghaware, 25,...
View ArticleInvestors go for gold as stocks, oil prices tank
Man the lifeboats! It’s all investors for themselves. In the topsy-turvy world of Wall Street in 2016, it’s more about preserving wealth than taking risk, so precious metals and Uncle Sam’s debt are...
View ArticleInvestors get the gold off of banks precious metals manipulation
For many years, precious metal commodity investors have screamed over certain price movements. Then came the convictions and penalties for the banks involved in the Libor rigging scandal, which gave...
View ArticleRevered Buddhist monk turned into gold-encased mummy
BEIJING — A revered Buddhist monk in China has been mummified and covered in gold leaf, a practice reserved for holy men in some areas with strong Buddhist traditions. The monk, Fu Hou, died in 2012 at...
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