Talk:Operation Gold

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Gosh darn it, I wrote spoil because I meant spoil. Spoil is the stuff we pull out of mines and pits when were are looking for ore. Still, I am pleased the article has gone so long with minimal changes. Paul, in Saudi 03:48, 13 August 2005 (UTC)

[edit] what happens to the waste spoil?

Does anyone wonder what happens to the waste spoil (i.e. soil and rubble) from operations such as this one? An earlier version of this article stated that the spoil had been stored in warehouses built for the purpose. This may well be true in this particular case but what else might happen to such spoil (especially from smaller jobs carried out in difficult to access locations)? Oddly enough, there is reason to believe that some of it is sometimes transferred to national archives storage in the guise of sealed and classified document boxes. (Yes, they would be very heavy document boxes). The advantage of this method is that no one (outside of the originators of the operation) need ever know what is in the boxes. They can even be passed as diplomatic baggage.

This comment by User:81.5.134.81 moved from the article to here. Shenme 05:17, 17 June 2006 (UTC)