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Cattle Gallstones, Worth Twice as Much as Gold, Drive a Global Smuggling Frenzy (www.wsj.com)
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One of the most prized ingredients in traditional Chinese medicine, cattle gallstones have become so valuable that traders are willing to pay as much as $5,800 an ounce—twice the price of gold—for the nuggets of hardened bile.

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