Even in those days, when he was fresh and boyish, the drugs left some kind of mark on him — not damage, exactly, more like a patina that darkened his skin to old gold, refining its texture so that minute wrinkles appeared at the corners of his lids when he frowned.
"There was no talke, no hope, no worke, but dig gold, refine gold, load gold," one colonist remembered.
The bride, 23, is a controller at Max Kahan Inc., a gold refining company in Manhattan.
May God thy gold refine Till all success be nobleness And every gain divine!
In 1986, after 50 years in business, Mr. Rodman retired and sold his gold refining firm.
During his protracted recovery, Mr. Wasas was asked by a friend to design an environmentally friendly gold refining system.
Professional services firm Ernst & Young recently discovered that a gold refiner in Dubai was hiding illegally mined gold from the Congo.
Newport had brought with him two experts in gold refining (to determine whether ore samples contained genuine gold), as well as two goldsmiths.
It was put together in the 1980s and '90s by two men, Harry Rodman, a veteran gold refiner from the Bronx, and Alan Bronstein, a diamond dealer from New Jersey.
He and his girlfriend drove to New York to do some sightseeing and "to explore a mail-order business relationship with a gold refiner" on Long Island.
Gold refining flourished here, Mr. Oberli said, because of the proximity to Italy, where jewelry is a major industry and labor is cheap.
