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Man arrested in theft of grandma's safe

Loretta Park Standard-Examiner Standard-Examiner

Last updated Monday, April 8, 2013 - 11:33pm

CLEARFIELD — A 24-year-old man is accused of stealing his grandmother’s safe, which had gold and silver pieces in it, and pawning it, police said.

Kory Brooks Rigby is charged with second-degree felony theft in 2nd District Court.

On Wednesday, Clearfield police arrested and booked Rigby into Davis County Jail, where he is being held in lieu of $10,000 bail.

Rigby had moved in with his grandmother, said Clearfield Assistant Police Chief Mike Stenquist.

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Comments sought on proposed Tooele open pit gold mine

Contributed Standard-Examiner

Last updated Monday, February 11, 2013 - 6:52pm

TOOELE -- The Bureau of Land Management Utah Salt Lake Field Office is seeking public comment on a Plan of Operations and environmental assessment analyzing the potential impacts of a proposed gold mining project in southwestern Tooele County.

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Gloria and Ben Standing sell some coins to Doug Nyholm on Wednesday at Fairfield Inn in Layton.

Silver, gold, old toys, sports memorabilia: Association in Layton ready to buy

Bryon Saxton Standard-Examiner

Last updated Thursday, May 17, 2012 - 12:11am

LAYTON — Ben and Gloria Standing, of Roy, had accumulated several miscellaneous old silver coins over the years. On Wednesday the couple was looking to trade them in.

The buyers, looking for old gold and silver coins, or toys and sports memorabilia pre-dating the 1960s, are part of the International Coin Collectors Association of Springfield, Ill.

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Galvez: Gold and silver are backup system

Antone Clark Standard-Examiner

Last updated Sunday, March 11, 2012 - 10:06pm

SALT LAKE CITY — A local lawmaker behind the initiative to make gold and silver coins legal tender in Utah said he is not trying to move the state back to a gold standard.

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Bill would make gold, silver legal tender in Utah

Antone Clark Standard-Examiner

Last updated Wednesday, March 7, 2012 - 7:46pm

SALT LAKE CITY — A local lawmaker’s bill to allow gold and silver coins to be used as legal tender in Utah is gaining momentum.

The Senate voted 24-4 on Wednesday to adopt HB 317, sponsored by Rep. Brad Galvez, R-West Haven, to allow the precious metals to be used in retail transactions.

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(MATTHEW ARDEN HATFIELD/Standard-Examiner) THR & Associates visits the Courtyard by Marriott in Layton on Tuesday to buy valuables, such as coins, jewelry and antiques.

Appraisers seek unknown treasures at Layton roadshow event

Jasen Asay Standard-Examiner

Last updated Tuesday, February 21, 2012 - 10:46pm

LAYTON — Jack Taylor is still waiting to see that “one cool thing” as he travels around the mountain states.

Taylor, an event manager with Treasure Hunters Roadshow, is at the Courtyard by Marriot in Layton this week. He travels through Utah, Idaho, Wyoming and Colorado appraising various items brought to him by hopeful owners. Before being assigned the mountain states, Taylor traveled through the northeastern part of the county.

“The coolest thing I saw there was a propeller off the Wright brothers’ plane,” Taylor said. “They had the paperwork to prove it was authentic.”

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Mining community reeling after gold heist from museum

Peter Hecht The Sacramento Bee

Last updated Sunday, February 12, 2012 - 12:59pm

YREKA, Calif. -- The last time so much gold was pulled out of this town, the place was known as "the richest square mile on earth," a Gold Rush jewel north of California's Mother Lode.

By the mid-1850s, the town so glittered in gold that miners showered the popular child dancer Lotta Crabtree with buckskin bags filled with nuggets at the Arcade Saloon.

Now Yreka is feeling violated by an audacious heist that has stolen its history and wounded its pride.

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In this Dec. 13, 2006 photo provided by Mel Fechter is a lobby display case of gold nuggets at the Siskiyou County Courthouse in Yreka, Calif. Thieves broke into the courthouse early Wednesday, Feb. 1, 2012and stole gold pieces from the display whose total value is estimated at $3 million. County officials and historical experts say the theft of the collection represents an "irreplaceable" loss to the county's cultural identity and past. (AP Photo/Mel Fechter).

$3 million in gold nuggets stolen from historic mining display

Lee Romney Los Angeles Times

Last updated Thursday, February 2, 2012 - 2:44pm

YREKA, Calif. -- Thieves in Yreka, Calif., made off with $3 million in gold nuggets Wednesday after breaking into the Siskiyou County Courthouse and smashing a glass case that contained a display on the area's mining history, officials said.

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Bodie State Historic Park, pictured August 12, 2009, is a California gold-mining ghost town, where visitors can walk down the deserted streets of a town that once had a population of nearly 10,000 people. The town was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1961, and in 1962 became Bodie State Historic Park. (Marc Martin/Los Angeles Times/MCT)

High gold prices breed new prospectors

Mike Anton Los Angeles Times

Last updated Wednesday, October 5, 2011 - 11:38am

BODIE, Calif. -- On a day when the price of gold soared above $1,700 an ounce, Jack Shipley drove past tourists strolling through this historic Eastern Sierra mining camp and up a rutted road to where a new breed of prospectors have set their sights.

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Elko, Nev. experiencing a gold boom

Ashley Powers Los Angeles Times

Last updated Monday, September 26, 2011 - 11:33am

ELKO, Nev. -- This far-flung capital of Nevada's Gold Belt is booming -- very, very reluctantly.

With the price of gold in the stratosphere, the mine-chiseled corner of northeastern Nevada is scrambling to fill thousands of jobs, while newcomers to the barren region beg for somewhere to sleep. The motels: sold out. The apartments: good luck. The RV parks: get in line.

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(Standard-Examiner file photo) Fishermen (from left) John Toner, Dewey Moffet and Walker Mackay, of Mackay Marine Brine Shrimp, harvest brine shrimp eggs from Great Salt Lake in 2005.

Utah's exports are booming

Antone Clark Standard-Examiner correspondent Standard-Examiner

Last updated Saturday, July 2, 2011 - 3:31pm

Business in Utah has an increasingly international flavor.

Exports from the Beehive State have doubled in the past five years, and early indications this year show the upward climb is continuing.

"We are a great exporting state," Lew Cramer, president of the World Trade Center Utah, said of the rise. Officials from other states and areas of the country are asking why, he said.

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Utah listens to gold bugs, but I'll stick to Uncle Scrooge

Charles F. Trentelman Standard-Examiner staff

Last updated Saturday, May 28, 2011 - 8:55pm

You are probably wondering what to do now that gold and silver are legal currency in Utah again. Buy a vault? Learn to prospect?

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Utah became the first state in the country this month to legalize gold and silver coins as currency.

Gold, silver coins to be legal currency in Utah

Josh Loftin, The Associated Press

Last updated Monday, May 23, 2011 - 9:27pm

SALT LAKE CITY — Utah legislators want to see the dollar regain its former glory, back to the days when one could literally bank on it being “as good as gold.”

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(NICHOLAS DRANEY/Standard-Examiner) Buyer William Blakney checks out items from Brenda Tyner at a buying event in Ogden on Thursday.

Ogden shows its metal: Gold and silver market is hot during recession

Jesus Lopez Jr. Standard-Examiner staff

Last updated Friday, February 11, 2011 - 11:46pm

OGDEN -- As the effects of the recession continue, some people have turned to precious metals to hedge their investments against the dollar.

Scott Van Leeuwen, owner of the Gifthouse pawn shop in Ogden, has seen brisk business in the sale and purchase of gold and silver.

"We do quite a bit," Leeuwen said from behind the counter of his shop on Historic 25th Street.

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Man tried to sell police chief fake gold

The Associated Press

Last updated Wednesday, January 19, 2011 - 10:55am

RANDOLPH, Mass. -- Police say a Boston man picked the wrong mark when he tried to sell him fake gold jewelry at a grocery store.

The man approached William Pace on Sunday and offered to sell him a bracelet and chain marked as 14 karat gold for $100. Two problems -- Pace is the police chief in Randolph, Mass., and he owns a jewelry store.

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