Many people love to visit night markets to feast on a variety of street food and perhaps find some trinkets to bring home.
However, most don’t expect to find valuable stuff there.
So a man who bought a S$3 metal watch strap from a night market in Malaysia was lucky to literally strike gold.
Source: Mohamad Kitartech on Facebook
He apparently managed to find about S$2,200 worth of the precious metal in his purchase.
Netizen Mohamad Kitartech shared his good fortune in a post on the Emas Used Atau Terpakai Sahaja (Used Gold) Facebook group.
He said the surprising find was uncovered at Pasar Karat (Karat Market) in Johor Bahru.
In case you want to visit to try your luck, it’s actually just a short walk from the Causeway.
So how did he find the gold?
After Mr Kitartech brought the watch strap home, he decided to weigh it and found that it was 41.44g.
Source: Mohamad Kitartech on Facebook
He then removed the brackets, and the remainder weighed 28.5g.
Source: Mohamad Kitartech on Facebook
He subsequently did an acid test, which is a simple way to test how pure a piece of gold is.
It involves scratching the sample against a black stone to form lines, then applying nitric acid to the lines to see how much gold remains as compared with metals that are dissolved.
To cut a long story short, Mr Kitartech claimed he found 24.91g of 999 gold in the strap.
999 gold is the purest form of gold, with a gold content of 99.9% not mixed with any other metal.
Source: Mohamad Kitartech on Facebook
He also managed to get 3.7g of 750 gold, which is 75% pure.
Source: Mohamad Kitartech on Facebook
Uncovering pure gold may be exciting, but there’s no point if you don’t know how much it’s worth.
Thankfully, as he posted in a Facebook group filled with people who buy used gold, one of them helped him calculate his windfall.
After doing the maths, she valued his haul of 999 gold and 750 gold at approximately S$2,275 (RM7,500).
Another curious netizen asked Mr Kitartech how much he paid for the watch strap, to which he happily replied that it cost him just S$3 (RM10).
Source: Mohamad Kitartech on Facebook
That means he basically made a profit of 732 times the cost of the strap.
Of course, not everybody can strike gold that easily just by picking up items at a night market.
You’ll probably need to have an eye for treasure like Mr Kitartech, and a huge dose of good luck.
Congrats to him on his bonanza, and we hope he’ll spend the money wisely.
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Featured image adapted from Mohamad Kitartech on Facebook.
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