Huge wrote:

whisky-dave wrote:

A Jewellers collects scraps from the carpet after 15 years.
£13k of gold and jewels found in carpet
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p04pwkbk

Dimwits. My goldsmith friend returns all floor sweepings for recovery
of the gold.

They had been using a special vacuum cleaner to extract the big stuff,
this was when it was eventually it needed replacing, they sent the
carpet off to be chopped up and incinerated to release the precious
metals, I gather they do the same with the bricks used in buildings
where large quantities of gold have been smelted.