• stoly@lemmy.world
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    2 hours ago

    Except that you’d also have to prove that you know how to refine it to explain why you’re selling pure gold.

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      1 hour ago

      That’s not insurmountable to learn, even something like watching Cody’s Labs videos on gold reclamation would be a good starting point.

      Overall it would still be tricky to fully pull off without raising suspicion unless the amounts were kept consistently low, at least if you kept it to a 1 person operation.

      If you started a gold mining company, hired people to run it legitimately, you could fudge the books on how much was actually mined, sifted, and processed, and that probably wouldn’t get a close inspection.