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Several groups actually have both intentionally and unintentionally.

In most cases they're pretty radioactive isotopes of gold. But IMO that just makes it feel even more like alchemy. The gold is cursed.

Your electricity bill might be greater than the value of the produced gold though.

You can indeed turn lead into gold; it will indeed be more expensive than it is worth; also the gold will be radioactive.

Gold is sold by weight, so those extra neutrons are pure profit.

Unfortunately all the heavy isotopes of gold are unstable and will decay in a few months.

That sounds like the buyer's problem though.

Shhh, don't tell that to my buyer!

I think they turned some platinum atoms into gold. In a particle accelerator.