PRICELESS PLATINUM.
USED FOR ROADMAKING. Geluhausen, a sleepy town in a quiet German valley, has become! a veritable treasure chest. Some time, ago a large electric light bulb factory there was burned down. The ruins of the buildings were used to build roads. In the course of time the price of platinum, a constituent used in the manufacture of electric light bulbs, rose beyond the dreams of avarice. It then occurred to someone to digin the roads for specks of the precious metal which might have been, melted by the lire and left in the' ruins. Presently the roadway was full of diggers, some of whom earned as much as 80,000 marks a day by selling platinum specks they unearthed. The owners of the bulb' factory tore down the new buildingthey had erected, and by searching in the ruins of the old, found enough platinum to pay for tearing down, and rebuilding their factory, and topay a handsome profit in addition.
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King Country Chronicle, Volume XVIII, Issue 1857, 4 September 1923, Page 2
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161PRICELESS PLATINUM. King Country Chronicle, Volume XVIII, Issue 1857, 4 September 1923, Page 2
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