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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;ahsegal, post: 1996199, member: 72340&quot;]<span style="color: #000000"><p style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 14px">A New York man is making a living by literally scraping the streets of Midtown’s Diamond District for tiny chips and pieces of gems and gold, the New York Post reports. </span></p></span></p><p style="text-align: left"><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-size: 14px">Raffi Stepanian, 43, was first discovered on his hands and knees in the middle of a rainstorm, digging through the cracks in the sidewalk with tweezers and a butter knife.</span></p></span></p><p style="text-align: left"><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-size: 14px">According to the paper,&nbsp; Stepanian said that through six days he had collected enough gold for a profit of $819 on 47th Street. He first got the idea to mine the sidewalks after finding gold scraps on the floor of a diamond exchange.&nbsp;&nbsp; </span></p></span></p><p style="text-align: left"><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-size: 14px">He likened the findings to that of a mine, only one step better because his findings are already cut and manufactured. As a freelance diamond setter, Stepanian sifts through mud in search of tiny diamond and ruby chips, gold <a href="http://www.bullionist.com/#" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.bullionist.com/#" rel="nofollow"><u><span style="font-size: 14px"><span style="color: #0000ff"><font face="arial"><span style="font-size: 14px"><span style="color: blue"><font face="arial">earring</font></span></span></font></span></span></u></a> backs, white-gold industrial loops, watches, brooches and necklaces that have been dropped and forgotten. </span></p></span></p><p style="text-align: left"><span style="color: #000000"><br /></p></span></p><p style="text-align: left"><span style="color: #000000"><br /></p></span></p><p style="text-align: left"><span style="color: #000000">Read more: <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/us/2011/06/20/nyc-man-makes-his-living-by-literally-scraping-streets/#ixzz1pfkIEcTu" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.foxnews.com/us/2011/06/20/nyc-man-makes-his-living-by-literally-scraping-streets/#ixzz1pfkIEcTu" rel="nofollow"><span style="color: #003399"><span style="color: #003399">http://www.foxnews.com/us/2011/06/20/nyc-man-makes-his-living-by-literally-scraping-streets/#ixzz1pfkIEcTu</span></span></a></p><p></span></p><p>Quite interesting if you ask me. $819 for 6 days of work isn&#039;t too, too bad.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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