[Link] World’s Most Powerful Precious Metal Traders Upset to Learn They Bought Piles of Worthless Rocks

Read: 21/3/2023 www.vice.com

The discovery that what was believed to be a small, moderately valuable store of nickel held in a Dutch warehouse was, in fact, a store of worthless rocks has roiled the scandal-ridden world of metals trading—and caught some of the world’s most powerful institutions in a web of intrigue.

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[Link] Crypto Investors Are Bidding to Touch a 1,784-Pound Tungsten Cube Once a Year

Read: 26/10/2021 www.vice.com

In the latest phase of the quest to turn everything into an NFT, crypto traders are now bidding to digitally own a 1,784 lb cube of tungsten in Willowbrook, Illinois.

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