Solid Gold
Sewers might be a place designed for waste, but not everything that ends up there is worthless. One famous incident happened in Japan: in 2009, workers at a treatment facility got 5 million yen in gold. They were processing sludge when they came across the precious metal. Thanks to a large number of precision equipment manufacturers in the area, they made use of the metal. They found a total of 1,890 grams of gold per ton of trash!
Solid Gold
Luxury Watches
As a matter of fact, there is more luck in the sewers than we know of. In 2012, a drain technician by the name of Aaron Large found no less than four luxury watches in the drains in England. They weren’t just any watches. They were an 18-carat gold Rolex Oyster Perpetual Cosmograph worth £21,000, with another Rolex and two more luxurious pieces found by him a few days later. Eventually, the owner of one watch was found and the other three were unfortunately fake. Still, Aaron got a reward from his employer for his hard work.
Luxury Watches
