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New Gold Rush? 10 Ounces Of "Historic Nuggets" Stolen From San Francisco Museum
Three masked men smashed an SUV into the front-windows of The Wells Fargo Museum in San Francisco's financial district at around 230am Tuesday, making off with 10 ounces of "historic gold nuggets." As AP reports, robbers in Northern California have targeted precious metals in museum displays before and the tactics of the heist have marked other recent robberies in the area. The men escaped in a second vehicle, according to KGO, and the vehicle reportedly headed east across the Bay Bridge. Local coin dealers said the robbers may have difficulty selling the nuggets unless they melt them down. No dollar bills, Euros, or Japanese Yen notes were stolen during the robbery.
Thieves in a stolen SUV smashed through the glass doors of the Wells Fargo History Museum in downtown San Francisco before dawn Tuesday and made off with up to 10 ounces of historic gold nuggets worth roughly $10,000, police said.
But rare coin dealer Don Kagin says the robbers may have difficulty selling the nuggets unless they melt them down. Word of the heist was spreading through the rare coin community, Kagin said, and dealers will be on the lookout for nuggets and coins with historical significance that suddenly appear on the market.
The three masked thieves held a security guard at gunpoint, took around 10 ounces of gold from an exhibit case and got away in a waiting sedan, police said. The guard wasn't injured.
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With the SUV still wedged in the revolving doors Tuesday morning, people walking to work stopped to look at the aftermath of the robbery and snap pictures, while police surveyed the damage.
Shattered glass crunched underneath the tires of a tow truck pulling the green 1992 Chevrolet Suburban from the building.
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The museum is in the 400 block of Montgomery Street and houses “real gold from California gold country regions,” a Wells Fargo stagecoach from the 1860s and a working telegraph, according to the museum’s website.
In addition to the stagecoach, used in the 1860s, the museum has a working telegraph and art and historical artifacts on display.
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The men escaped in a second vehicle, according to KGO. The vehicle reportedly headed east across the Bay Bridge.
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Not the first time...
Gold nuggets also were taken in a September 2012 robbery at the California State Mining and Mineral Museum. Five men were convicted of stealing $1.3 million in gold, quartz and other valuable metals from the museum in the western foothills of the Sierra Nevada mountains.
Some of the stolen items, including a bag of ground-up quartz, were recovered. But about $12,000 worth of gold was sold to pawn shops and dealers, police said.
It was the second heist that year of valuable metals in Northern California. In February 2012, thieves made off with large chunks of gold on display in a Siskiyou County courthouse.
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A New Gold Rush?
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fucking awesome!!!!!!!!!
The assailants apparently mesmerized the guards with dancing cobras and bearded she-men....
"Barbarous relic"
"You can't eat gold"
"Gold is not money"
"Sorry Germany, you can't have your gold back" ~ The Federal Reserve
And last, but not least. Why does "The News" give a flying fuck about a some gold colored metalic ancient rocks being stolen from some treasonous horders???? That's like a breaking news story about somebody stealing DUST, right???!!!
This is a non-story. Gold = DUST or SHIT. And nobody cares about somebody stealing SHIT, right????
Keep Calm and Keep Stacking Shitty Dust made of gold.
Those 2 fucktard "news"/state-run prestitute propagandists are going to starve to death after the SHTF and then they'll wish they not only had "some" shitty gold dust in their posession, but also a fucking TON of phyzz silver.
FUCK YOU, LAME STREAM, DINOSAUR, PRESTITUTE MEDIA WHORES. You will all get what you deserve in the end, you treasonous, sell-out, scumbag, bitchez. :-)
Project Mahem homework assignment!
Next time, use Gold plated fake nuggets made of Cobalt 60 Isotope.
Easy to make with a Farnsworth Fusor, and they kill every retard that handles them.
10 ounces??? 10...ounces???? That's like gee, only $13000 FRN's of a barbarous relic, right? So let's get this straight. STEAL gold and it's a major fucking news story in the "lame stream media" about something "valuable" being stolen.
But if you BUY gold, then the "lame stream media" calls you crazy, stupid, a prepper, a horder, "anti-progressive" (hahahaha), etc. etc.
Keep going with it, "folks". You're anti-government if you buy gold or silver. You're an economic terrorist. You're an "extremist" if you buy gold or silver. You're a "domestic terrorist" if you stack phyzz.
But if you STEAL this shit, well fuck'n A...You may as well have robbed FORT-FUCKING-KNOX and have threatened our national fucking security!!! You fucking piece of shit!!!
But don't you fucking dare legally trade in your worthless fucking FRN Bernanke Bucks for REAL money gold or silver phyzz....NOOOOOOOOOOO
Now you're on America's most wanted list as a traitor.
FUCK YOU, FEDERAL RESERVE SCUM!!! :-)
NAIL GUNS FOR ALL OF YOU!!!
Nail Guns...the guillotines of the 21st Century! :-)
Central banks are buying gold on the manipulated paper market like fucking crazy by the mass tonnage and that news is squashed by the scumbag media. That's a non-event. Netherlands, China, Russia, India, Germany, etc. etc.
While at the same time physical gold has been stolen and sold from the U.S, England, Saudi Arabia, Lybia, Egypt, Ukrain, etc. and shipped to China and that's a NON-EVENT in the lame-stream, dinosaur, prestitute, state-run media. And that's the ultimate THEFT OF ALL TIME!!!
This so-called "news" story is talking about 10 fucking ounces of gold!!!???????????????
WAKE THE FUCK UP, FOLKS!!! WAKE OTHERS UP WITH THIS STORY, "FOLKS"!!!! Use it to help others so that the slim percentage of those you know who just might finally wake the fuck up will finally start trading in those worthless FRN's for phyzz silver and gold now before it's too fucking late.
Pass it on!!!!!!
Thanks for typing that up, very well put.
Buffet called these clowns a bunch of baffoons for taking the risk of prison for a barbaric relic...they should have broken into a best buy and stolen some really high end printers
lead core nuggets.
Only until you realize they did more far more costly damage than they'll get for those nugs.
Woohoo, party on Team Stupid!
The SUV was probably worth more than the Gold in those Nuggets.
It may have been easier to sell the stolen SUV...unless they were idiots enough to use their own...then, again...they are so fucking brilliant.
Brilliant move. What a fucking brilliant move.
Really I do not give a damn about Wells Fargo's "loss". That bank is populated by more clever crooks. I do care about the loss of History as those nuggets will be melted. That is a loss to everybody.
Yet cleverness does not mitigate crime but serves to aggravate the crime.
But Wells Fargo Bank's clever and chronic theft does not serve to justify another theft.
Yeah..Party on Team Stupid as Team Clever will Party...AT YOUR EXPENSE.
Fuck WF, and congrats to the new owners of some historic precious!
They are not actual historic nuggets but stand ins.
Once melted, historic nuggets and contemporary nuggets look one and the same.
History - 0. Chemistry - 1
... and you can smelter it in a standard microwave oven. I'm sure there must be a youtube video for noob robbers :)
California Gold Nuggets are not finer than 20K
The Gold is alloyed naturally with Silver, Copper, Iron and other impurities.
Just what in the hell do you know about Gold Refining? Not a fucking thing!!!
The process is quite lengthy and if I were to refine it then I would alloy it with Silver at Three Times the expected weight in Gold to bring it down to 6 Karat by melting that much Silver into it.
Then I would pour that melt off into water to make small popcorn size "nuggets".
Then I would take that product and place it into 70% Nitric Acid which will combine with the Silver and become Silver Nitrate. The Copper will combine with the Nitric Acid to become Copper Nitrate Salt. What is left is Sponge Gold at the bottom of the flask, Copper Nitrate Salt in solution and Silver Nitrate Salt in Solution.
Filtering I will recover the Sponge Gold for further processing.
Then with the Copper Nitrate/Silver Nitrate Nitric Acid Solution I will add a Copper Pipe. The Copper will replace the Silver and the Silver will precipitate to the bottom of the flask. Filtering again I collect the precipitate and melt it as it is Fine Silver.
Then I will take the Copper Nitrate/Nitric Acid Solution and add a Stainless Steel Kinfe. The Copper will cement to the knife and I will be left with Nitric Acid for reuse.
As for the sponge Gold I take that and submerge that into Hydrochloric Acid. Then adding Nitric Acid slowly I will add enough to where all of the Gold is absorbed into the resultant Auric Acid Solution. Once all of the Gold has been adsorbed then I will add just enough Urea to neutralized any excess Nitric Acid.
Then I will add Sodium Metabisulfiter to that solution and watch the reaction. The Gold will precipitate out as a brown "mud"
Once again I filter. Now I will wash this product. Or I will run the product alone through the Aqua Regia process again.
But I will end up with 999 Fine Gold at the end.
Microwave? You are an ignorant child believing in magic.
Bravo sir! Very informative; however, I have one question. Why would you alloy it with Silver at Three Times the expected weight in Gold to bring it down to 6 Karat?
It seems to me that you're just making an extended process longer. However, given level of knowledge evident in the rest of your post, I'm certain there's a rationale.
TIA
Alloying the gold with silver down to 6 Karat is called inquarting ( no surprise that ... 6K is one fourth of 24K ... heh ).
By adding the silver, you get all of the base metals into alloy, and lower the base metals ability to protect the gold from the Aqua Regia process. You also lower the amount of acid required ( when you inquart, you can dilute the acid to 50-50 ).
The Aqua Regia process, without inquarting, is quite popular with the folks who recover scap gold from old computer parts and memory cards, as the gold there tends to be pure heavy plating. ... they'll cut the fingers off of old memory modules, and dump pounds of this into acid.
Be careful with this process, it generates a lot of extremely hazardous fumes.
Thank you.
Looks like somebody forgot to take their sarcasm detection meds.
I hope it was theft for hire and the client has a satisfaction beyond monetary value.
Thats exactly what organized crime used to do back in the 50s and 60s. Steal gold coins, which are illegal to own (back then) and melt them down, pour out onto the ground, and presto, new nuggets that could be sold. They made lots of money ldoing that.
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If gold continues to be barbarized, only barbarians will have gold.
This one time an Anunaki showed up at my doorstep:
"Whoa, god! I aint got no gold man, it's all at the bottom of a lake... you know...." *nervous giggle*
"Relax, son. I only wanted a beer. You were chosen because you are beer in heart."
A twelve pack and some bong rips later, the Anunaki god lamented about their forgetfulness in wiping the planetary slate clean before going home.
"Sometimes you forget to wash the dishes before your vacation... show up a few billion years later, and booyah, mold, everywhere. Sorry bud, you're gonna have to go too."
"I understand."
Flood. James Flood
I think that's the most important part of the article to memorize.
That man in the Baseball Cap looks like the crisis actor interviewed by CNN on the WTC videos.
childs play. If they wanted to do something like this they should have hit The Golden Nugget Casino display in Las Vegas, Huge nuggets. They would be hauling pounds instead of ounces. Also, there is a thirteen pound giant snowflake crystal looking nugget from Grass Valley California on display at another certain museum in San Francisco whose name escapes me as it was years ago I was there.
maybe logistics are keeping that plan from developing further. What would be funny is after they stole the gold, the good guys were throwing fresh FRN's out the window of the getaway car.
I don't know if they still have it at the Golden Nugget, but they used to have The Hand of Faith nugget on display. 875 troy ounce freaking bolder. It was found by a guy in a trailer park playing with a metal detector behind his mobile home in Austrailia. Dumb assed idiot took the first million dollar offer he got and it moved to Vegas. I think it was the largest ever found.
@ saints:
That reminds me of something I could exactly see the Joker from the Batman Franchise of movies doing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qMkkfuSizc4
Simply a Barbaric Act
10 ounces divided by 3 robbers - Might have to wait a few years, no months for that to really pay off.
~$3000 payday each as soon as it's melted and sold to a waiting fence.
Watch for those nuggets on Ebay any day now. They're so stupid they'll probably list them as, 'Historic Wells Fargo Nuggets." When you have three thieves, usually one cracks up and reveals the loot by trying to dump it too soon.
gafaw gafaw gafaw......
' Historic Wells Fargoh Nuggets '
Pleas ask questions prior to bidding. All sales final!
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Easier than copper.
They wont even get half the value from a fence tho.
~$1000 payday.
Wait. They can't even get spot for these historic, or numismatic and highly rare gold nuggets?
WTF?
They probably caused more than $10,000 of damage robbing the place. The police may want to check Paul Krugman's alibi - this seems like his MO: Gold is associated with crime in the msm consciousness and he got to break some windows at the same time.
Still waiting for the first stickup by drone.
Obama has the drones and he also has a stick up (his ass).
SUV was worth more than the nuggets. Lol
Stolen. DUH!
Good thing for them that whole cesspool of a city is a gun-free zone. This same tactic in someplace like AZ would be a very risky gambit.
Where was Putin at the time? So obvious.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o1WBhKWJjAk
People from Holland and UK are starting to ask awkward questions
and challenge the monopolistic powers of the money overlords.
ifni.co/articles/economics/money#fbwork
It looks like whoever designed that Wells Fargo did a poor job on security as there should have been more bollards to prevent ram-raiding. They went cheap on only having 4 bollards, so left enough room for an SUV to get through.
My faith in Americans is renewed. At least these guys understand "value."
They were authentic gold painted nuggets ~ go figure ~
of course they were fakes. what kind of fool puts little more than a piece of glass between $100k+ worth of gold and the general public? c'mon, even the poorest convenience store owners put up retracting meal gates. those guys walked away with some pretty paper-weights, though.
didnt they know there were fiats in that bank????
how ironic!
Now that's funny. I've been away from the bay area for only three weeks and I miss it. Always something crazy going on up there. So. Cal. sucks. Time to move to that rural NC home and unplug from the matrix. Hope the robbers were someone I know.
Careful. In rural NC, the robbers, more often than not, wear badges and drive in gray/black cars that say NCSP or they could be county sheriffs or local PDs.
Be very careful. Conventional crime is low here, but badge-robbery is off the charts. You see, in this region impoverished by free trade and illegal immigration, the .gov goons have extremely limited options for generating revenue since property values are low and since nobody's got any money, sales taxes are likewise low.
But, staffing, salary needs, healthcare costs, equipment maintenance and procurement, and pension costs are all up up up.
They look at their hips, see the gun hanging there. Then they look on their chest and see th badge of protection sitting there, and decide it's completely logical to use those things to get the funding they need for the aforementioned requirements that are all there to keep us safe. See. They 'protect; our freedom by taking it away.
Yeah, Applalachia has a long history of self-reliance and of saying 'fuck the man', but I wonder if the CW didn't cull alot of those genes out and leave the "yessir mr officer whatever you say sir' gene pool in the majority. Well that and the "as long as we go to church and vote republican everything will be alright; especially if we don't legalize gay marriage or cannabis" genes.
Cuz Fox News and my preacher say it's true, it is.
FYI.
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I just happened to be in the area at the time and saw the perpetrators with gold in hand headed straight for the San Francisco HQ of the Federal Reserve.
All for a barbaric relic. What's this world coming to.
Very cool. A 21st century stagecoach robbery.
Fuck You John Stumpf.
I wunda if'n dat be 'nuf fo' a new set 'o' grilles...o' if dey be needin' mo'...
The smashing the stolen SUV into the business windows/wals has actually become quite the popular methodology these days.
probably bought medical marijuana
with their haul..
Having worked for Wells Fargo for 5 years, couldn't have happened to a nicer bank.
Wait the theft was against a bank, therefore the crimes cancel out.
Also the writer is a moron for thinking the thieves might sell the gold as-is. Of course they care going to melt it....
And you thought the LAST gold rush got ugly...
Some thieves robbed the thieves.
The banksters need to repay us.
I'll debit 10 gold ounces to the banksters.
Fitting for barbarians to commit such a barbaric act over a barbarous relic.
Bet you they were painted tungsten nuggets.
The real ones are in China already.
Oakland just got a big new gold toof.
I like the fact that they used a "wagon" in the robbery.
Fitting.
Proof that paper is better than Gold. http://youtu.be/ZiJa9diJOMk
What about making a news story about the gold stolen from Fort Knox
Well, since it is such a barbarous relic, it's a good deal that someone finally took it off their hands...
Whew! Now that the crap is gone, they can get on with...well, whatever it is that they DO.
Help out a bank today...take their worthless 'relics' off their hands. They'll thank you for it.
I'd have to be pretty damn desperate for 10oz. Not to mention the problems with collaborting with 2 other people.
It's possible a private collector wanted them and paid way over the actual per oz. price.
Perhaps check one of the Koch brother's desk drawers?
Gold can be melted down into another form; marked FRNs not so much.
I lived near the Financial District of SF. Are you telling me that the drunk waiters getting out of the Irish Bank and a few other bars in the area, stumbling home to North Beach, did not see any of this?
Next time, put plaster replicas on display and keep the real stuff in a safe.
This already happened in good ol dirty Jersey... However, the made of with alot more than 10 ounces of the yellow shit
http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2013/02/22/a-gold-rush-like-no-other-daring-...