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Australia May Surpass U.S. in Gold Production

News outlets recently reported that the land down under is set to surge ahead of the United States when it comes to gold production this year. You may not have event realized that the U.S. is a top producer of gold, but it is. And now, if reports are true, Australia is going to be producing even more gold that the United States. If this were to [ read more ]

Price of Gold Affects Diwali Holiday Shopping Habits

The condition of the world economy has an effect on holiday celebrations everywhere. While merchants in the United States are doing their best to figure out just how they will lure shoppers and convince them to buy during the holiday season here, vendors in other countries are also facing the same issue. Everyone wants to strike gold and find that [ read more ]

Colorado Commemorates its 1859 Gold Rush

Colorado is hoping that its gold mining past will bring in a gold rush of visitors and tourism. To commemorate 150 years of gold mining officials in that state have come up with a travel itinerary that connects some of the towns that sprang up as a result of the gold rush. Some of the towns that are taking part in this effort are Boulder, Black [ read more ]

Touching Gold: The Story of King Midas, pt. 2

Earlier in the week, we discussed the Greek myth about King Midas. After an act of kindness, Midas was granted the ability to turn anything he touched into gold. At first Midas rejoiced because he was thinking about the value of gold and about all of the riches and cash for gold he would have once he was able to continuously sell gold. What he [ read more ]

The Mysterious Benefits of Gold

Gold is a mysterious substance and it is highly valued, in part because it is not readily available. It takes work to get gold. You cannot simply go in your backyard and dig some up. Gold has to be mined and it is not found everywhere.

One of the other reasons that gold is so highly valued is because of its beauty and brilliance. Gold is great [ read more ]

U.S. Mint Sells 2009 Buffalo Gold Coins

Earlier this week, the U.S. mint started selling the 2009 version of its 24 karat gold Buffalo gold coins. Although they were made recently, the design of these current gold coins pretty much sticks to the standard design that Buffalo gold coins have has since 1913, when they were in circulation. Back then they were known as Buffalo Nickels or [ read more ]

Smithsonian Needs to Raise Cash to Display Rare Gold Coins

The National Museum of American History is part of the Smithsonian Institution and it has on the largest collections of coins in the world. Some of the pieces in its collection were created more than 2,700 years ago. And as you can imagine, gold coins make up a very important part of the museum's collection.

As we mentioned in an earlier post, [ read more ]

Gold is Used to Build Space Ships

Did you know that gold has been an integral part of missions of outer space? It is true. Space programs make use of Very thin gold sheets that measure at 0.15mm thick. These thin sheets of gold are used as a radiation shield. The gold is used to deflect the sun's high temperature rays. (Now don’t go thinking that you can use gold as a sunscreen. [ read more ]

Gold Jewelry Comes in Different Colors

There are so many different types of gold jewelry and our last post went over gold purity, gold plating and overlays. As you choose gold jewelry you want to sell, knowledge about different types of gold is invaluable.

Gold also comes in quite a few different colors. The color of gold that is the most well known and the one you see more of than [ read more ]

Charity Wine Festival Has Gold on the Menu

Now if I told you about a charity wine festival, what kind of items would you assume would be available for purchase of auction at such as event? I imagine that you would say that wine would be the main item on the auction menu at a charity wine festival. But what about gold? Would expect to see gold available to purchase at a charity wine [ read more ]