Professor Ian Plimer joins Jeremy Cordeaux in the studio with a five-ounce gold nugget from his own small North Queensland mine and his seventeenth book, Gold, Everything You Need to Know, which is already in reprint a week after release.

He explains why gold is so heavy and how nuggets grow, argues that gold has held its value for two thousand years while money has lost it, revisits the sale of Australia's gold reserves, and takes listeners inside the Kalgoorlie Gold Police and some of history's great gold heists. The conversation finishes on universities, mining engineering graduates and why he believes the sector has lost its way.

This interview aired live on The Court of Public Opinion on Friday 16 October 2026.

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