Brickbat: Struck Gold

reason.com/2025/05/27/brickbat-struck-gold

Michel Dupont, a farmer from France's Auvergne region, discovered a massive gold deposit worth about £3 billion ($3.41 billion) in a stream on his farm while out for a walk, but he won't receive any money from it because French law says underground resources belong to the state, not the…

This story appeared on reason.com, 2025-05-27 08:00:23.
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