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This Aussie town lets people pay for a hotel room with gold

Cecilia Jamasmie | July 24, 2014 | 2:03 pm Precious Metals Asia Australia Europe Gold 

[caption id="attachment_792291" align="aligncenter" width="600"] The hotel will take "anything" as payment, as far as it is gold.  (Image courtesy of the Rydges Resort and Spa Kalgoorlie).[/caption] A hotel in the Wild West mining town of Kalgoorlie, in West Australia, is...

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