Knowing about the huge rise in copper theft over the last year, do we expect the same to begin with gold? I foresee a lot of gold theft in the coming months. $1000 per ounce will do that.
True. I assume the price of gold pretty much as high then. For breaking and entering scenarios, gold will be a usual target, I imagine.
I was also thinking about other sources of gold - university labs, things like that. Unlike copper, gold isn't used in our everyday appliances in abundance. I remember thinking while working in physics labs that the substances we worked with were very valuable - gold, platinum, etc. I was surprised there weren't more thefts there. They're reasonably unguarded.
It was a couple hundred dollars less per ounce at the time, still at a record highs.
I'm guessing that the average thief isn't going to think of a lab as a source of easily disposable precious metals. Construction sites are prime targets for copper theft, on the other hand.
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I was also thinking about other sources of gold - university labs, things like that. Unlike copper, gold isn't used in our everyday appliances in abundance. I remember thinking while working in physics labs that the substances we worked with were very valuable - gold, platinum, etc. I was surprised there weren't more thefts there. They're reasonably unguarded.
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I'm guessing that the average thief isn't going to think of a lab as a source of easily disposable precious metals. Construction sites are prime targets for copper theft, on the other hand.
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