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Belgian student strikes gold worth €9m while digging sewers
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The discovery was made on the site of a former brewery in Sint-Gillis-Dendermonde, suggesting that the gold may have been hidden or lost during a previous era of activity at the location. The fact that the student was working on a sewage system excavation project indicates that the area was undergoing significant construction or renovation work, which led to the unexpected find. The site's history as a brewery may hold clues to the origin of the hidden gold trove.
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Belgian student strikes gold worth €9m while digging sewers
Kobe, 18, who made discovery on site of former brewery in Sint-Gillis-Dendermonde, at first thought trove was €1 coins
For a student with a summer job working on a Belgian building site, “money down the drain” has taken on a whole new meaning: excavating the trenches for a sewage system, he stumbled across a hidden trove of gold worth an estimated €9m (£8m).
“We suddenly saw something lying there,” 18-year-old Kobe t…
14 Aug, 15:52
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