NYU Graduates Seeking $11 Billion of Gold in Ransacked Mine

  • Entrepreneurs to rebuild South Africa's Blyvooruitzicht mine
  • Underground mine contains gold resource of 9 million ounces
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At Blyvooruitzicht, a 77-year-old gold mine southwest of Johannesburg, almost everything had been stolen except gold-bearing ore in the looting after the operation was closed in 2013.

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