It’s hard to think of something more worthless than sewer. But in Suwa, Japan, it was discovered that there was gold in the sewer! It was not just a small amount of gold, either. The facility began incinerating its sewer waste and then processing the ash to separate out the precious metal. Reuters reported that the sewage treatment facility recorded finding 1,890 grams of gold per ton of ash from incinerated waste. By comparison Japan’s Hishikari Mine, which in 2009 Reuters considered one of the world’s top-rated gold mines in gold per ton, produced about 20-40 grams per ton. This city was flushing gold down the drain and didn’t even know it!
Gold is one of the least reactive metals of the whole periodic chart. It is the least likely to react with another element. This contrasts it from chlorine, the most reactive metal on the periodic table. Gold’s stability as an element is evident from its strong resistance to tarnishing. This is one reason that it has been considered valuable for centuries, and even millennia.
I would like to propose that there is a book that is more precious than gold. The Bible has been tossed aside by the affluent of the world, largely disregarded by the highly educated of academia, and rejected by the masses as a book of fairy tales. Yet the Bible hasn’t changed for centuries, and still bears the same message today that it did in 1517 when Martin Luther nailed his 95 theses to the door of the Wittenberg chapel. Could it be that you are missing out on the most precious gem to be found on this earth? Luther’s first Bible was chained up and its access strictly controlled. Today, however, this Book is freely available to you.
References:
Yoshikawa, M. (2009, January 30). Sewage yields more gold than top mines | reuters. Reuters. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-gold-sewage-odd/sewage-yields-more-gold-than-top-mines-idUSTRE50T56120090130/