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Gold Recycling

Yesterday was Earth Day and many people have recycling on their minds. When people think of recycling they do not think of something like gold, but gold recycling has been going on since ancient times. The gold industry has made efficient use of its product by re-purposing it and putting it back into the market. Gold is not something that is used [ read more ]

The U.S. Military Awards Silver and Gold Stars

The U.S. military issued award stars in cases where a person has earned multiple awards of the same kind. In a way, the stars act as a kind of shorthand. For example, someone would get an award star instead of getting a second Legion of Merit award. This even applies in cases when someone is going to get more than two awards. If someone were [ read more ]

White Gold vs. Platinum

Although white gold and platinum may seem to be very much alike to an untrained eye, jewelry made with the two metals is very different. One way in which they differ is in price--platinum is a lot more expensive than white gold. Read on and you'll get some idea what this is the case.

White Gold
White gold is not found in nature; instead it is [ read more ]

Pre-Columbian Gold

As we noted earlier this week, gold was one of the main motivations that Christopher Columbus had when he set sail from Spain. Gold was just as popular centuries ago as it is now. And even though Columbus was not the first person to land on the shores of America, his name has been associated with the beginning of the era of contact between the Old [ read more ]

Afghan Hero Helped Keep Ancient Gold Safe, pt. 1

Recently, The Wall Street Journal shone the light on Ameruddin Askarzai, a modern-day hero from Afghanistan. One of his fellow countrymen called him a "forgotten hero", but part of the reason for Askarzai's obscurity was his own reluctance to be named or photographed. He is now willing to be more public and will be awarded with a medal from [ read more ]

The Civil War Gold Hoax

While surfing around in the internet, I read a blog where someone commented that their mother told them that there was real gold in gold crayons. Hmmm...this sounds like an urban legend, but it is not any more incredible than other hoaxes involving gold.

In the spring of 1864, an incident that came to be known as the Civil War Gold Hoax took [ read more ]

Miraculous Gold Molars

We've talked before about how you cannot make gold from other metals and that as much as you'd like to spin straw into gold, it isn't likely to happen. And now we have a tale of miraculous gold. One that, if you believe it, will have you considering the idea that gold can appear out of thin air.

Back in 2001, a televangelist said that he met an [ read more ]

Dubai Festival is Short on Gold Coins

The other day we mentioned that in the ancient Rome, a gold coin could be used to purchase a toga--the clothing of choice for that day. Plus, in today's market, a gold coin could be used to buy a decent men's suit. That should give you some indication of just how much gold is really worth. You certainly could not trade in the value of a coin made [ read more ]

More on Gold Production

We've been looking at gold production and outlining some of the process that helps the stuff in the earth become the gold bars, gold coins, gold earring, gold necklaces and many other objects of gold. And if you've been reading this week, then you know that it is not at all simple.

Maybe when those first participants in the California Gold Rush [ read more ]

A Look at Different Grades of Gold Ore

On Monday, we spent some time looking at gold production and went over some of the areas of the world that produce more gold than anywhere else.

Now you may be asking--what do you mean when you say that states within the U.S. and countries all over the world "produce gold?" Isn't gold itself already produced naturally in the earth? Well, yes [ read more ]