PEACHLAND VIEW
OCTOBER 14, 2016
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OPINION DAN WALTON
BARRY PRESIDENT
DICK,
of URSA Major Gold, Silver and Coin, was appraising gold, coins and other valuable minerals at the 50 Plus Activity Centre offering appraisals last week.
Getting gold from the heavens DAN WALTON EDITOR
editor@peachlandview.com
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Having such a limited supply of gold on Earth makes the product very valuable, but if humanity figures out how to extract it from other parts of the cosmos, the commodity could become much more affordable. Barry Dick, president of URSA Major Gold, Silver and Coin, was at the 50 Plus Activity Centre offering appraisals last week, when he was asked about the possibility of astroid mining. “If they get onto an asteroid with machines and get that gold back to Earth, then we’re going to see prices tumble because it will saturate the market because we could have more gold than we’ll know what to do with,” he said. Although current technologies aren’t mature enough to make it happen, the concept is slowly shedding its status as a science fiction premise. In 2014, Rosetta mission soft-landed a probe onto a comet, in the European Space Agency’s march towards untold interstellar opportunities. According to Forbes, the entire planet contains just 3.27 Olympic swimming pools worth of gold, which would be worth around $8.2 trillion in one big lump. Unless alchemy becomes possible, which Isaac Newton wasted a ton of his career trying to figure out, there won’t be very much new gold coming in.
“There’s very little gold,” he said. “It’s spread out all over the planet, but very little to be had.” But floating around in the solar system’s is an astroid belt that’s packed with an abundance of gold. While it won’t be happening in the near future, the supply of gold could be drastically affected if astroid mining efforts are developed further. All of Earth’s gold was originally introduced to the planet from asteroid strikes, and gold disperses along the upper crust, said Dick. “When a meteorite hits, however long ago, that gold slowly spreads itself out, through a vein or loose nugget, flower gold form,” he said. “It typically follows the flow of water over time.” Evidence of gold-rich asetroids are responsible for major mining expeditions in places like the Yukon, Baskerville, B.C. and South Africa, said Dick. “That’s why it’s always so centralized” If humanity is willing to look within, it is possible, albeit inefficient, to extract gold from the ocean, he said. “In every cubic mile of ocean water there is an ounce of gold, but it is so fine that it would cost more to extract it than it’s worth to get out.” During his time in Peachland, one of his most notable appraisals was a half penny from Britain dated 1799. The coin was bronze plated copper, and its value has increased exponentially, and is worth $5 to $10 today. Dick can be contacted by calling 886-2430753.
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