![]() Now what's your particular problem?' He sat back and lit a cigarette. The old ones were the most beautiful money in the world.' They look like any other country's money. Bond said, 'I'm not very impressed by the new ones. I can't understand these dollar swindles.' 'Can you give me an example of smuggling? In gold. 'That's a lot.' Bond measured it against the Secret Service which had a total force of two thousand. Perhaps they'll find a way of mining gold. They're already mining oil under the sea. Perhaps the position isn't as bad as you think. He said, 'You certainly make a fascinating story of it. The Gold Squad retired discomfited, our legal department decided the brown dust in the trawler's timbers was not enough to prosecute on without supporting evidence, and that was more or less that, except' - Colonel Smithers slowly wagged the stem of his pipe -'that I kept the file open and started sniffing around the banks of the world.'īond, smothered by this cataract of gold history, found no difficulty in looking as grave as Colonel Smithers. There were traces of gold about, of course, and furnaces to heat up to two thousand degrees and so forth, but after all Goldfinger was a jeweller and a smelter in a small way, and all this was perfectly above-board. Mark you, he may have been tipped off by his bank manager or someone, but that factory was entirely devoted to designing a cheap alloy for jewellers' findings - trying out unusual metals like aluminium and tin instead of the usual copper and nickel and palladium that are used in gold alloys. Come in." Mr Goldfinger positively welcomed them. Why, the whole production of the Klondike and the Home-stake and Eldorado, which were once the wonder of the world, would only add up to two or three years of today's production from Africa At this rate, Mr Bond,' Colonel Smithers leaned forward earnestly, ' - and please don't quote me - but I wouldn't be surprised if in fifty years' time we have not totally exhausted the gold content of the earth' CROSSOUT XBOX FREEToday we are in the third Gold Age with the opening up of the Orange Free State deposits." Colonel Smithers threw up his hands. These were helped by the new method of cyanid-ing instead of separation of the gold from the rock by mercury. Then came the second modern Gold Age - the discoveries on the Wit-watersrand. Meanwhile, in Australia, Bendigo and Ballarat had come into production, and the Russian deposits at Lena and in the Urals were making Russia the largest gold producer in the world in the middle of die nineteenth century. The famous gold rushes of the Yukon and Eldorado, and the rich strikes at Eureka sounded off the first modern Gold Age. These were followed by the opening up of the Gold Coast, then called Negro-land, and after that came the Americas. In the Middle Ages there were the finds in Mexico and Peru. The Romans worked Wales and Devon and Cornwall. Ants coming up from under the earth carrying grains of gold led the Indians to their alluvial fields. Europe was worked for it - the valleys of the Rhine and the Po, Malaga and the plains of Granada. Croesus and Midas emptied the Middle Eastern territories of gold. There were the great gold treasures of Egypt and Mycenae, Montezuma and the Incas. People have been scratching the surface of the world for gold for thousands of years. Broadly speaking, there only remains the land under the sea and the sea itself, which has a notable gold content. You may think that large areas of the world have still to be explored for gold. In fact the gold content of the world is being worked out. 'You're not bored? Well, you were suggesting that gold production was so vast nowadays that it ought to take care of all these various consumers. I'm sure she'll be very good - right figure and all that. Say I'll be greatly obliged if just this once. It's the only position on the field we've got for her. "Well, if Mrs Flake won't play goals, I'm afraid she'll have to stand down. The next match is on Saturday against the Discount Houses.' He listened again. 'I'm sure I sent you a note about the summer fixtures, Miss Philby. 'Smithers speaking.' He listened, irritation growing on his face. Colonel Smithers impatiently snatched up the receiver. 'Just come up from our printing works at Loughton.' ![]()
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