While smashing lead atoms into each other at extremely high speeds in an effort to mimic the state of the universe just after the Big Bang, physicists working on the ALICE experiment at the Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland incidentally produced small amounts of gold. Extremely small amounts, in fact: a total of some 29 trillionths of a gram.
While this experiment is going on for a long time now and producing better results everytime, I'm sure one day the old Alchemy would be back.
But when it does, would that be a good news for Gold Maxis?