Gold found in old Indian temple

[Seanfhonduir]

reuters.com/article/2011/07/ … PN20110704

nvestigators plan to pry open the final vault hidden deep under a centuries-old Indian Hindu temple as police guarded round the clock the shrine where billions of dollars worth of treasure has been discovered.

Over the last week a seven-member team of investigators has broken into five of the six secret subterranean vaults piled high with jewels that have lain untouched for hundreds of years.

Onlookers and devotees thronged the shrine in the bustling center of Thiruvananthapuram, the capital of India’s southern Kerala state, as officials said treasure worth more than $20 billion had been found – more than India’s education budget.

Sacks filled with diamonds were piled next to tons of gold coins and jewelry, media reported, in the vaults of the 16th century Sree Padmanabhaswamy temple, the royal chapel of the former rulers of Travancore, now part of Kerala state.

This is the same India with aircraft carriers, a nuclear weapons program a space program and that is a recipient of Irish aid

[buddygunz]

That bolded part is disgraceful in a country of over 1 billion people.

[jammyBastard]

Hmmm. I’d be interested to see what’s in CJH’s grave. A year’s education budget would go a long way.

[Tis_Meself]

IDEA!
Are we sure, really sure, really really sure that there’s nothing under the Rock of Cashel or Glendalough etc?
Possible national dig-out scheme?

[jess]

@Tis Meself

IDEA!
Are we sure, really sure, really really sure that there’s nothing under the Rock of Cashel or Glendalough etc?
Possible national dig-out scheme?

I believe we’re perfectly sure that Croagh Patrick has a large amount of gold in it.
Unfortunately getting at it means melting the mountain.

[Tis_Meself]

Unfortunately we are where we are:
Desperate Times:
Give pilgrims a shovel rather than a stave - digging can be penance too!
Set up smelter internships to get cheap extraction labour - use timber from ghost estates for fuel - wood recycling internships as well!
Personal and National Salvation all in one!
When its all flattened and the trove of treasure delivered to IMF/ECB or whoever owns the country by then - the plentiful rubble from the ghost estates (and rock recycling interns) can build it all right back good as old!