Dec. 28, 2025, 11:15 p.m. ET Minneapolis — In the classic 1948 Humphrey Bogart movie, “The Treasure of the Sierra Madre,” an old gold prospector opines that the precious metal is valuable because an ounce represents the sweat and heartbreak of thousands of men who have searched for it. “An ounce of gold, mister, is worth what it is because of the human labor that went into the findin’ and the gettin’ of it,” declares the old miner.