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Sulawesi is one of the four larger Sunda Islands of Indonesia and is situated between Borneo and the Maluku Islands. Huge deposits of gold have been found 250km of the capital in the Bombali District in 2008 and since then, it’s the gold rush and hundreds of people go there hoping to get rich! Children quit school and work instead for 10-20 dollars a day, which I think is not too bad over there.. Here are some sad black and white photos showing a bit how things happen over there…  25-year old American alpine ski racer Lindsey Vonn won the gold medal the other day at the 2010 Winter Olympics in downhill skiing, she is the first American woman to do so! And not only is she a good athlete, she is also very good looking. So let’s see now a sexy photoshoot of this hot gold medal winner. And if you want to see more Olympic beauties, check out this link.  Cobra Gold is the annual joint military exercise of armed forces of many nations. These pictures feature US-Thai exercise where soldiers need to eat lizards, snakes, etc. Just hold on you breaths and watch out the scary pictures showing the truth of the marines’ lives.  Few facts about gold: a total of 161,000 tonnes of gold have been mined in human history, as of 2009 (with half of that extracted in just the past 50 year). India is the world’s largest consumer and importer of gold as Indians buy about 25% of the world’s gold, purchasing approximately 800 tonnes of gold every year and importing around 400 tonnes of gold. The most famous precious metal has never been so expensive than today but it won’t prevent people to buy it.. Now let’s see diverse pictures about gold, from mining to buying, enjoying, discovering and selling gold…  This is a hand crafted golden pencil called ‘24K pencil’. It was made by a Korean designer Daisung Kim who decided to mock a little of the price of the precious metal that’s getting higher and higher everyday and becomes something unattainable for ordinary people. His ‘24K pencil’ has a thin layer of 99% pure gold and can be considered as a piece of art.  Today we will look at how gold bars are made. They then are going into the national gold reserves of Russia. You’ll see many gold bars. The markings say 99.99% which is the high purity gold bar. Let me have a couple of bars please   You can hardly make more useless! I’ve seen lots of goldplated stuff, but I’ve got to admit, I would have never thought of goldplated staples… 140 euros for 24 staples. Who will pay for that?  In 1533, a Portuguese trading ship carrying a fortune in gold and ivory was swept ashore and wrecked by a winter storm. It was only found last year on a beach in southern Namibia. Ironically, the ship, believed to be the nau Bom Jesus, wrecked on a beach rich with diamonds and named ‘Sperrgebiet’ which means "forbidden zone" in German.  We have already posted a lot of pimped golden cars: A golden Mercedes of an Arabian Sheikh Golden Mercedes. But this time it’s white gold Golden BMW M5 Golden Porsche from Russia with love Golden Ferrari 599 GTB from Hamann And today we have a golden Audi R8 from Dubai.  During the economic collapse, the Arab sheiks are buying extraordinary things. Meet Ferrari 599 GTB, modified by German tuner Hamann!  Aurumania Company presented a golden bike with Swarovski crystals for some 80,000 euro.  Nikolai Aldunin is called the master of miniatures. He put horseshoes on a flea as well as saddle and stirrups, he also put 7 camels in the eye of a needle and a replica of a Russian samovar that is smaller than a grain of sugar, he made a tank on a sliced apple seed - it is almost impossible to believe. Nevertheless, it is real and everything is crafted out of gold. Like many other artists who make miniature sculptures, Nikolai crafts between the beats of the heart that allows him to reduce the shaking of hands. This is very interesting to see.  He decorated well his fingers, I admit ;) It looks like it is gold. But in this case, the question, what is he doing on the bus and not in his car with a driver? :)  A small but beautiful photo series of pictures by photographer Dina Goldstein. I would say, princesses from fairy tales that are well known to us, in scenarios of modern life...  It’s not a secret that Russians like shiny, bling bling things, if they can afford it, and most of all, they like to show it off. Here’s you are seeing a Porsche 911 covered with almost 40 pounds of pure gold. But…it is golden leaves that were used instead which is less expensive. Anyways, the result is impressive.  In fact, this is not even the paint but a special wrapper. Normally, I don’t like this kind of car tuning, but I must admit, it looks quite impressive.  Horrible conditions of work in gold mines, and all this happen nowadays, the time of technical progress.  Here’s the golden youth of the United States. They like clubbing and having parties. Almost all of these pictures were made in a club, I think. Well, the style of some guys is really horrible but tastes and colors are not argued over… )  Several days ago we’ve already had a post about a Golden Mercedes. This Mercedes is covered with white gold! Financial crisis you say…   |
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