On Fri, Feb 26, 2016 at 3:43 AM, Tim <xxxxxx@little-possums.net> wrote:

. . . should drive the Traveller cost of refining gold to at most
about the current price of copper; something like 1 Cr/kg. . . .

Sure makes buying all those primitive potentates a lot easier for the followers of the Zhunastu School, don't it? :)

Richard Aiken

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